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Jump to content From Wikidata Welcome to Wikidata the free knowledge base with 120,696,913 data entities that anyone can edit. Introduction • Project Chat • Community Portal • Help Want to help translate? Translate the missing messages. 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 involvedFor 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. More... News 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! Register here for the access link. Check the schedule: on Pretalx & on-wiki. 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. More news... (edit [in English]) 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) Property: highest point (P610) custom value: Mount Everest (Q513) Related to current events 2026 Afghanistan–Pakistan war (Q138414208) Pokémon Winds and Waves (Q138499194) Antonio Tejero Molina (Q312749) (pictured) Irina Shevchuk (Q4522310) Hannah Spencer (Q125360531) Rob Jetten (Q28860866) Punch-kun (Q138358320) 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 Facebook, Mastodon, Bluesky Leave a message at project chat Telegram General Chat, Telegram Help or on IRCconnect Report a technical problem Keep up-to-date: Weekly summaries Wikidata is part of the non-profit, multilingual, free-content Wikimedia family. Wikipedia – Encyclopedia Wiktionary – Dictionary and thesaurus Wikibooks – Textbooks, manuals, and cookbooks Wikinews – News 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 Retrieved from "https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Main_Page&oldid=1816946465" Category: Wikidata Search Wikidata:Main Page Add topic