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Welcome to Wikidata

the free knowledge base with 124,003,779 data entities that anyone can edit.

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Welcome!

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.

Get involved
For a complete starters’ guide, visit the community portal.

Learn about Wikidata

  • What is Wikidata? Read the Wikidata introduction.
  • Explore Wikidata by looking at a featured showcase item for author Douglas Adams (Q42).
  • Get started with Wikidata's SPARQL query service.

Contribute to Wikidata

  • Learn to edit Wikidata: follow the tutorials.
  • Work with other volunteers on a subject that interests you: join a WikiProject.
  • Individuals and organizations can also donate data.

Meet the Wikidata community

  • Visit the community portal or attend a Wikidata event.
  • Create a user account.
  • Talk and ask questions on the Project chat, Telegram groups, or the live IRC chatconnect.

Use data from Wikidata

  • Learn how you can retrieve and use data from Wikidata.
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News
  • Wikidata is turning 14 years old!🎂 On 🗓️ October 29, 17:00 UTC (in your timezone), join the online call for presents, birthday messages and games. 🎁 Add your own gifts to this list – More info here: Wikidata's 14th Birthday.
  • 2026-10-21: Wikimedia Foundation is undertaking critical maintenance work due to a PHP security release. Certain services, including tools hosted on Toolforge and Cloud VPS, are offline as a precautionary measure. For updates, see this page.
  • The Wikidata Query Service Days 2026 took place between October 17 to 23.
    • This online event will focus on the migration of the Wikidata Query Service from Blazegraph to QLever, and supporting the Wikidata community, tool maintainers and data reusers with adapting their queries and tools to the new endpoint.
    • 🎥 Missed a session? All session recordings are available on the Event page, Commons and the YouTube playlist
    • 🗣️ Please share this event with anyone you know who makes use of SPARQL, the Wikidata Query Service or Wikidata lists, as there is a very high chance they will be affected!

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Learn about data

New to the wonderful world of data? Develop and improve your data literacy through content designed to get you up to speed and feeling comfortable with the fundamentals in no time.

  • Item: Earth (Q2)
    Item: Earth (Q2)
  • Property: highest point (P610)
    Property: highest point (P610)
  • custom value: Mount Everest (Q513)
    custom value: Mount Everest (Q513)
Related to current events
  • Anastasia (Q486609)
  • Diwali (Q10244) (pictured)
  • Gadi Eisenkot (Q796885)
  • Pidegari (Q141851594)
  • La Sénia (Q704847)
  • Alice Huang (Q142100489)
  • Sebastián Lelio (Q4250213)
Discover

Innovative applications and contributions from the Wikidata community

Featured WikiProject:
WikiProject Women

👩🔬 Passionate about highlighting women's achievements? WikiProject Women is dedicated to creating and improving data about women worldwide. Help close the gender gap in knowledge!

More:

  • Check out Wikidata:Tools for some of our best tools and gadgets for using and exploring Wikidata
  • Try building SPARQL queries and inquiring data using natural language using the Spinach Wikidata assistant
  • See the category for user-made bot-updated lists of Wikidata items

Know of an interesting project or research conducted using Wikidata? You can nominate content to be featured on the Main page here!

Contact
  • Wikidata mailing list
  • Wikidata technical mailing list
  • Discussion requests for specific topics
  • Mastodon, Bluesky, Facebook
  • Leave a message at project chat
  • Telegram General Chat, Telegram Help or on IRCconnect
  • Report a technical problem
  • Weekly summary of updates
Wikidata is part of the non-profit, multilingual, free-content Wikimedia family.

 Wikipedia – Encyclopedia     Wiktionary – Dictionary and thesaurus     Wikibooks – Textbooks, manuals, and cookbooks     Wikiquote – Collection of quotations     Wikisource – Library     Wikiversity – Learning resources     Wikivoyage – Travel guides    Wikispecies – Directory of species    Wikifunctions – Free software functions     Wikimedia Commons – Media repository     Incubator – New language versions     Meta-Wiki – Wikimedia project coordination     MediaWiki – Software documentation   

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