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See Wikidata:Status updates/Current for an overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the past week.

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Wikidata item creation progress

Current news

Feel free to add to this list anything that is considered news-worthy. (Just remember that it's transcluded to the Main Page!)


  • 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!
  • 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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2025

  • 2025-07-16: The Wikidata development team held the Q3 Wikidata+Wikibase office hour for 2025. They presented their work from the past quarter and discussed what's coming next for 2025. Session log is available.
  • 2025-05-29: Wikidata and Sister projects runs from May 29 to June 1: 4 days and ~10 hours worth of sessions on examples of Wikidata being integrated to, supporting or powering other Wikimedia Projects. See Commons archive of presentations and recordings.
  • 2025-03-15: The Vector 2022 skin will become the default Wikidata skin on March 15; see the full announcement.
  • 2025-03: As part of the Open Data Day 2025, between March 1st and 15th, OSM and WikiProject India organise a Datathon and Mapathon.
  • 2025-02-24: Wikimedia Brazil unveils QuickStatements 3.0, adding much requested community-wishlisted features.
  • 2025-02: Data Reuse Days 2025 were held February 18–27: 8 days and 16 hours worth of sessions on using Wikidata to build applications and tools, share research and ideas. See Commons archive of presentations and recordings.
  • 2025-01-15: The Wikidata development team held the Q1 Wikidata+Wikibase office hour for 2025. They presented their work from the past quarter and discussed what's coming next for 2025. Session log is available.

2024

  • 2024-10-29: Wikidata is now 12 years old! Happy birthday!
  • 2024-10-16: The Wikidata development team held the Q4 office hours on October 16 at 16:00 UTC. They talked about what they've been working on in the past quarter. Session log is available.
  • 2024-07-10: The Wikidata development team held the Q3 Wikidata+Wikibase office hour on July 10th at 16:00 UTC. They presented their work from the past quarter and discussed what's coming next for Q3. Find the session log here.
  • 2024-05-07: Wikidata records its 231th edit, the revision IDs not fitting into 32-bit signed integer anymore
  • 2024-04-10: The development team at WMDE held the 2024 Q2 Wikidata+Wikibase office hour in the Wikidata Telegram group. You can read session log.
  • 2024-04: Wikidata held the Leveling Up Days, an online event focused on learning more about how to contribute to Wikidata from the 5th to 7th and 12th to 14th of April.
  • 2024-01-24: Wikidata tool QuickStatements (Q20084080) ran its batch 222222.
  • 2024-01-17: The Wikidata development team held Wikidata+Wikibase office hour, talking about what they've been working on. Find the session log here.

2023

  • 2023-11-30: Wikidata holds the Data Modelling Days, an online event focused on how to describe and organise data in Wikidata, from the 30th of November to the 2nd of December.
  • 2023-10-29: Wikidata is now 11 years old! Happy birthday!
  • 2023-10-18: The Wikidata development team talk about what they've been working on in the office hours at 16:00 UTC on Telegram.
  • 2023-05-13: Wikidata tool QuickStatements (Q20084080) ran its batch 200000.

2022

  • 2022-11-09: The Wikidata development team talk about what they've been working on in the office hours at 17:00 UTC on Telegram.
  • 2022-10-29: Wikidata is now 10 years old! Happy birthday!
  • 2022-10-03: Wikidata tool QuickStatements (Q20084080) ran its batch 100000, tagging documents for Project Riksdagen's documents (Q114364300).
  • 2022-07-27: The Wikidata development team talk about what they've been working on in the office hours at 17:00 UTC on Telegram.
  • 2022-07-21: Lua access for lexemes is now available on all Wikimedia projects.
  • 2022-07: Wikidata holds the Data Quality Days, a series of online events focusing on data quality, from the 8th to the 10th.
  • 2022-04-20: The Wikidata development team talk about what they've been working on in the office hours at 17:00 UTC on Telegram.
  • 2022-03: Wikidata holds the Data Reuse Days, a series of online events focusing on data reuse, from the 14th to the 24th.
  • 2022-01-19: The Wikidata development team talk about what they've been working on in the office hours at 17:00 UTC on Telegram.

2021

  • 2021-10-29: Wikidata turns 9! Happy birthday!
  • 2021-10: WikidataCon 2021 takes place online from the 29th to the 31st.
  • 2021-09: Wikidata holds the Data Quality Days, a series of online events focusing on data quality, from the 8th to the 15th.

2020

2019

September

August

March

  • 2019-03-21: Link support with Wikimania has been added (The discussion)

January

  • 2019-01-19: Wikidata passed 7 billion triples (source)

2018

October

April

  • 2018-04-20: Wikidata passed 5 billion triples (source)
  • 2018-04-12: The deployment of the first version of lexicographical data is planned for end of May 2018.

March

2017

November

  • 2017-11-30: Wikidata passed 4 billion triples (source)

June

  • 2017-06-20: Phase 1 of Wiktionary has launched. Now you can link Wiktionary pages with every item for all the Wiktionaries namespaces (except main, citations, user and talk).
  • 2017-06-01: Phase 1 of Wiktionary is planned to start June 20th.

May

  • 2017-05-15: Tabular data datatype has launched.

April

  • 2017-04-24: Geographic shape datatype has launched.
  • 2017-04-24: Phase 0 (automatic interwiki links) of Wiktionary has launched.
  • 2017-04-05: Phase 0 (automatic interwiki links) of Wiktionary is planned to start April 24th, 2017, check out the coordination page.

2016

October

May

April

February

  • 2016-02-23: Phase 1 of Wikiversity has launched.
  • 2016-02-16: The datatype identifier has launched, and the "in other projects" sidebar is enabled by default on all projects except Dutch Wikipedia.
  • 2016-02-09: The mathematical expression datatype has launched.
  • 2016-02-01: Wikiversity deployment planned to start February 23rd, check out the coordination page.

2015

October

  • 2015-10-29: Wikidata turns three years old. Read about the past year and what is coming next.
  • 2015-10-20: Meta, Wikispecies and MediaWiki get access to the sitelinks on Wikidata.

September

  • 2015-09-22: Phase 2 of Wikibooks has launched.
  • 2015-09-16: Arbitrary access is deployed to every Wikimedia wikis that phase 2 supported except Wikimedia Commons.
  • 2015-09-09: Meta, MediaWiki.org and Wikispecies deployment planned to start October 20th.
  • 2015-09-09: Unit support has launched.
  • 2015-09-09: Usage tracking is deployed to every Wikimedia wikis that phase 1 supported.

July

June

  • 2015-06-01: Arbitrary access for Italian Wikipedia and all remaining Wikisource projects has launched.

May

  • 2015-05-11: Arbitrary access for Dutch Wikipedia and French Wikisource has launched.
  • 2015-05-06: Arbitrary access for Dutch Wikipedia and French Wikisource is planned to start May 11th.

February

2014

December

November

October

August

  • 2014-08-19: Sitelink to Wikinews and Wikidata, badges, redirects between items, and monolingual text datatype have launched.

July

June

  • 2014-06-10: Phase 2 of Wikiquote has launched.

April

  • 2014-04-08: Phase 1 of Wikiquote has launched. Now you can link Wikiquote pages with every item.

March

February

  • 2014-02-25: Phase 2 of Wikisource has launched to allow data access, and performance improvements were deployed.

January

2013

December

  • December 31, 2013: User:Dexbot became the first bot to reach 10,000,000 edits in one Wikimedia project.
  • December 10, 2013: Ordering, ranks and a table of content have launched.

November

October

September

August

July

  • July 23, 2013: Phase 1 of Wikidata has gone live on Wikivoyage. In addition, when you move a page on Wikivoyage, Wikidata will automatically update. (This long-awaited feature will be available on Wikipedia as well on the 25th.)
  • July 5, 2013: Wikivoyage deployment planned to start July 23rd, check out the coordination page.

June

May

April

March

February

January

2012

December

November

October

  • October 29, 2012: Wikidata is launched. Several bugs have been fixed and the Wikidata repository should be functional. Please report errors!
  • October 26, 2012: The Wikidata database is created but is not available for editing yet.


Milestones

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Properties

Lexemes

Schemas

  • 2023-07-21: Entity schema E400, about an archival resource in the Yale University Art Gallery, is created.
  • 2021-04-15: Entity schema E300, for a motor racing season, is created.
  • 2020-04-15: Entity schema E200, for a Russian noun with paucal, is created.
  • 2019-07-21: Entity schema E100, for a city, is created.
  • 2019-05-28: Entity schema E10, for a human, is created.
  • 2019-05-28: Entity schema E1, for a ShEx entity schema, is created.

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