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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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