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Walcome tae Wikidata

the free knawledge base wi 120,131,947 data eetems that onyane can eedit.

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Walcome!

Wikidata is a free an appen knawledge base that can be read an eeditit bi baith humans an machines.

Wikidata acts as central storage for the structurt data o its Wikimedia sister projects includin Wikipaedia, Wikivoyage, Wikisoorce, an ithers.

Wikidata an aa will provide support tae mony ither steids an services beyond juist Wikimedia projects! The content o Wikidata is available unner a free license, exportit uising staundart formats, an can be interlinked tae ither open data sets on the linked data wab.

Get involved

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

Lear aboot Wikidata

• Whit is Wikidata? Read the Wikidata introduction.
• Explore Wikidata bi leukin at a featurt showcase item for author Douglas Adams.
• Get stairtit wi Wikidata's SPARQL query service.

Contreibute tae Wikidata

• Lear tae eedit Wikidata: follae the tutorials.
• Wirk wi ither volunteers on a subject that interests ye: jyne a WikiProject.
• Individuals an organisations can an aa donate data.

Meet the Wikidata commonty

• Veesit the commonty portal or attend a Wikidata event.
• Creaut a uiser accoont.
• Talk an ask quaistens on the Project chat or via live IRC chat^connect.

Uise data frae Wikidata

• Lear hou ye can retrieve an uise data frae Wikidata.

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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.

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Learn aboot data

New tae the wonderfu warld o data? Develop an improve yer data literacy through content designed tae get ye up tae speed an feelin comfortable wi the fundamentals in no time.

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

Coorent heileits

• 2026 Crans-Montana fire (Q137652531)
• 2026 (Q49613) (pictured)
• deaths in 2026 (Q134185145)
• Edris Mahmoudian (Q137640399)
• Sitio Fechado (Q137610392)
• John Fisher (Q6116336)
• Elnara Gasimova (Q135436805)

Discover

Innovative applications an contreibutions from the Wikidata commonty

Featurt 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 oot Wikidata:Tools for some o oor best tuils and gadgets for uisin an splorin Wikidata.
• Brouse oor press clippins an collection o published research aboot Wikidata

• 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

Ken o an interestin project or research conducted uisin Wikidata? Ye can nominate content tae be featurt on the Main page here!

Contact

• Wikidata mailing list
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• Discussion requests for specific topics
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• Leave a message at project chat
• Chat on IRC

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