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Current news

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  • 2024-07-10: The Wikidata development team held the Q3Wikidata+Wikibase office houron 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 loghere.
  • 2024-05-07: Wikidata records its2³¹th edit,the revision IDs not fitting into 32-bit signed integer anymore
  • 2024-04-10: The development team at WMDE held the 2024 Q2Wikidata+Wikibase office hourin the Wikidata Telegram group. You can readsession log.
  • 2024-04: Wikidata held theLeveling 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.
  • 2024-03-12: Wikidata records its2,100,000,000th edit.

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2024

2023

  • 2023-11-30: Wikidata holds theData 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 theoffice hoursat 16:00 UTC on Telegram.
  • 2023-05-13: Wikidata toolQuickStatements(Q20084080)ran itsbatch 200000.

2022

  • 2022-11-09: The Wikidata development team talk about what they've been working on in theoffice hoursat 17:00 UTC on Telegram.
  • 2022-10-29: Wikidata is now 10 years old!Happy birthday!
  • 2022-10-03: Wikidata toolQuickStatements(Q20084080)ran itsbatch 100000,tagging documents forProject Riksdagen's documents(Q114364300).
  • 2022-07-27: The Wikidata development team talk about what they've been working on in theoffice hoursat 17:00 UTC on Telegram.
  • 2022-07-21:Lua access for lexemesis now available on all Wikimedia projects.
  • 2022-07: Wikidata holds theData 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 theoffice hoursat 17:00 UTC on Telegram.
  • 2022-03: Wikidata holds theData 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 theoffice hoursat 17:00 UTC on Telegram.

2021

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 oflexicographical datais planned for end of May 2018.

March

2017

November

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

June

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

May

  • 2017-05-15: Tabular datadatatypehas launched.

April

  • 2017-04-24: Geographic shapedatatypehas launched.
  • 2017-04-24: Phase 0 (automatic interwiki links) ofWiktionaryhas launched.
  • 2017-04-05: Phase 0 (automatic interwiki links) ofWiktionaryis planned to start April 24th, 2017, check out thecoordination page.

2016

October

May

April

February

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 ofWikibookshas launched.
  • 2015-09-16:Arbitrary accessis 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:Unitsupport has launched.
  • 2015-09-09: Usage tracking is deployed to every Wikimedia wikis that phase 1 supported.

July

June

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

May

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

February

2014

December

November

October

August

July

June

April

  • 2014-04-08: Phase 1 ofWikiquotehas launched. Now you can linkWikiquotepages with every item.

March

February

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

January

2013

December

  • December 31, 2013:User:Dexbotbecame 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 1of Wikidatahas gone liveonWikivoyage.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:Wikivoyagedeployment planned to start July 23rd, check out thecoordination page.

June

May

April

March

February

January

2012

December

November

October

  • October 30, 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

Items


Properties

Lexemes

Schemas

  • 2023-07-21: Entity schemaE400,about an archival resource in the Yale University Art Gallery, is created.
  • 2021-04-15: Entity schemaE300,for a motor racing season, is created.
  • 2020-04-15: Entity schemaE200,for a Russian noun with paucal, is created.
  • 2019-07-21: Entity schemaE100,for a city, is created.
  • 2019-05-28: Entity schemaE10,for a human, is created.
  • 2019-05-28: Entity schemaE1,for a ShEx entity schema, is created.

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