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Wikidata is a free and open knowledge base that can be read and edited by both humans and machines.

Wikidata acts as central storage for the structured data of its Wikimedia sister projects including Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wiktionary, Wikisource, and others.

Wikidata also provides support to many other sites and services beyond just Wikimedia projects! The content of Wikidata is available under a free license, exported using standard formats, and can be interlinked to other open data sets on the linked data web.

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What is Wikidata? Read the Wikidata introduction.
Explore Wikidata by looking at a featured showcase item for author Douglas Adams (Q42).
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Learn to edit Wikidata: follow the tutorials.
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News

2023-11-15: The Q123456789 item is created and, following much disagreement about its subject and notability, deleted.
2023-10-29: Wikidata is now 11 years old! Happy birthday!
2023-10-29: Wikidata records its 2,000,000,000th edit.
2023-10-21: Lexeme L1200000, for the Italian (Q652) word 'dismesso', meaning 'discontinued', is created.
2023-10-09: The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 18th October 2023 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
2023-06-27: The one hundred and twenty millionth item, a disambiguation page, is created.

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Item: Earth (Q2)
Property: highest point (P610)
custom value: Mount Everest (Q513)

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WikiProject Music

Wikiproject Music is home to editors that help add data about artists, music releases, tracks, awards, and performances! Additionally, importing from and linking Wikidata with the many music databases and streaming services is another focus of the project. Read about our data model on our project page and come chat with us on Telegram.

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