Welcome to Wikidata

the free knowledge base with 108,933,447 data items that anyone can edit.

IntroductionProject ChatCommunity PortalHelp

Welcome!

Wikidata is a free and open knowledge base that can be read and edited by both humans and machines.

Wikidata acts as central storage for the structured data of its Wikimedia sister projects including Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wiktionary, Wikisource, and others.

Wikidata also provides support to many other sites and services beyond just Wikimedia projects! The content of Wikidata is available under a free license, exported using standard formats, and can be interlinked to other open data sets on the linked data web.

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

Learn about Wikidata

Contribute to Wikidata

Meet the Wikidata community

Use data from Wikidata

More...
News

More news... (edit [in English])

Learn about data

New to the wonderful world of data? Develop and improve your data literacy through content designed to get you up to speed and feeling comfortable with the fundamentals in no time.

Discover

Innovative applications and contributions from the Wikidata community

Featured 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 out Wikidata:Tools for some of our best tools and gadgets for using and exploring Wikidata.

Know of an interesting project or research conducted using Wikidata? You can nominate content to be featured on the Main page here!

 Wikipedia – Encyclopedia     Wiktionary – Dictionary and thesaurus     Wikibooks – Textbooks, manuals, and cookbooks     Wikinews – News     Wikiquote – Collection of quotations     Wikisource – Library     Wikiversity – Learning resources     Wikivoyage – Travel guides    Wikispecies – Directory of species    Wikifunctions – Free software functions     Wikimedia Commons – Media repository     Incubator – New language versions     Meta-Wiki – Wikimedia project coordination     MediaWiki – Software documentation   

Language