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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.
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 chatconnect.
Uise data frae Wikidata
- Lear hou ye can retrieve an uise data frae Wikidata.
- 2024-04-05: Wikidata holds 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.
- 2024-04-03: The development team at WMDE will hold the 2024 Q2 Wikidata+Wikibase office hour on Wednesday, 10th April 2024 (18:00 Berlin) in the Wikidata Telegram group.
- 2024-03-12: Wikidata records its 2,100,000,000th edit.
- 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.
- 2023-11-30: 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.
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custom value: Mount Everest (Q513)
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Innovative applications an contreibutions from the Wikidata commonty
Featurt WikiProject:
WikiProject Music
Wikiproject Music is home to editors that help add data about artists, music releases, tracks, awards, and performances! Additionally, importing from and linking Wikidata with the many music databases and streaming services is another focus of the project. Read about our data model on our project page and come chat with us on Telegram.
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
Ken o an interestin project or research conducted uisin Wikidata? Ye can nominate content tae be featurt on the Main page here!
Wikipaedia – Encyclopaedia
Wiktionar – Dictionar an thesaurus
Wikibuiks – Textbeuks, manuals, an cuikbeuks
Wikinews – News
Wikiquote – Collection o quotations
Wikisource – Librar
Wikiversity – Learnin materials an activities
Wikivoyage – Travel guides
Wikispecies – Directory o species
Wikifunctions – Free software functions
Wikimedia Commons – Media repository
Incubator – New leid versions
Meta-Wiki – Wikimedia project coordination
MediaWiki – Saftware documentation