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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
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can be interlinked to other open data sets
on the linked data web.
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2025-11-12:
Temporary accounts
were deployed on Wikidata. From now on unregistered editors will get a temporary account automatically assigned to them, instead of being identified by their IP addresses.
WikidataCon 2025
, Oct 31 - Nov 2.
Join us for 3 days of presentations, discussions, workshops, lightning talks and games; all powered or helping power Wikidata!
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Check the schedule:
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Wikidata's 13th Birthday🎉! Join us online, October 29 17:00 UTC (
in your timezone
) for presents, birthday messages, games...and a 📣surprise announcement (don't miss it!). 🎁 Add your own gifts to the list - anything that celebrates Wikidata and its amazing community... a script you’ve written, tool improvement, visual, poem...the sky's the limit. Get the call link here:
13th Birthday Presents & Messages call
2025-10-15: The Wikidata development team held the Q4
Wikidata+Wikibase office hour
for 2025. They presented their work from the past quarter and discussed what's coming next.
Session log
is available.
2025-06-19:
Search by entity type
goes live. The new Wikidata Search box is typeahead compatible and searches can be limited to only show results for Items, Properties, Lexemes or EntitySchema. See the
original announcement
2025-06-12: Help us improve Mobile editing experience!
Watch this video of the prototype
to this long-requested feature and share your thoughts and feedback to our
Mobile editing discussion page
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Wikiquote
– Collection of quotations
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Wikiversity
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Wikispecies
– Directory of species
Wikifunctions
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Wikimedia Commons
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Incubator
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Meta-Wiki
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