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The item with the highest Q number at the moment is…

27 November 2024

• 19:1719:17, 27 November 2024 Air nozzle device for a vehicle (Q131343277) (hist) [6,047 bytes] LucaDrBiondi (talk | contribs) (‎Created a new Item: Setting labels)

The property with the highest P number at the moment is…

22 November 2024

• 11:4811:48, 22 November 2024 ISCC (P13150) (hist) [6,301 bytes] Lewis Hulbert (talk | contribs) (‎Created a new Property: ISCC, ISCC hash code that identifies a media object based on fuzzy hashing) Tag: Wikidata user interface

The lexeme with the highest L number at the moment is…

27 November 2024

• 19:0519:05, 27 November 2024 Zɔŋe (L1380598) (hist) [2,513 bytes] ANTHONY DERY (talk | contribs) (‎Created a new Lexeme) Tag: Wikidata user interface

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Current news

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• 2024-11-21: Coming up: Data Reuse Days 2025, an online event focusing on people using Wikidata's data on applications and tools, 18-27 February 2025, online.
• 2024-10-29: Wikidata is now 12 years old! Happy birthday!
• 2024-10-15: 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.
• 2024-08-28: The one hundred and thirty millionth item, a scholarly article, is created.
• 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

Older entries

2024

• 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.
• 2024-07-10: Wikidata records its 2,200,000,000th edit.
• 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.
• 2024-03-12: 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

• 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

• On October 29th, we celebrate Wikidata's 8th birthday. You can have a look at the events organized by the community, the presents and messages.

2019

September

• 2019-09-20: Wikidata passed 8 billion triples (source)

August

• 2019-08-09: Entity schemas are enabled on Wikidata.

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

• 2018-10-29: Wikidata celebrates its sixth birthday!
• 2018-10-18: Senses are now part of Lexicographical Data.

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

• 2018-03-03: The deployment of the first version of lexicographical data is planned for April 2018.

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

• 2016-10-29: Wikidata celebrates its fourth birthday!

May

• 2016-05-11: ArticlePlaceholder has launched.
• 2016-05-04: Phase 2 of Wikiversity has launched.

April

• 2016-04-26: Arbitrary access is deployed to Wikimedia Commons.

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

• 2015-07-07: Wikibase Quality Extensions have launched. Now we can view the constraint report of an item.

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

• 2015-02-24: Phase 1 of Wikibooks has launched. Now you can link Wikibooks pages with every item.
• 2015-02-06: Wikibooks deployment planned to start February 24th, check out the coordination page.

2014

December

• 2014-12-17: Language fallbacks and property datatype have launched.
• 2014-12-16: Google announces the closure of Freebase and migration to Wikidata
• 2014-12-03: Statements on properties have launched. In addition, when you delete a page on a Wikimedia project, Wikidata will automatically update.
• 2014-12-02: Phase 2 of Wikimedia Commons has launched.

November

• 2014-11-04: Wikidata wins the Open Data Award by the Open Data Institute in the category Publisher

October

• 2014-10-29: Wikidata turns two!

August

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

July

• 2014-07-22: Wikinews deployment planned to start August 19th, check out the coordination page.

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

• 2014-03-07: Wikiquote deployment planned to start April 8th, check out the coordination page.

February

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

January

• January 31, 2014: The quantities datatype is introduced.
• January 14, 2014: Phase 1 of Wikisource has launched. Now you can link Wikisource pages with every item.

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

• November 2, 2013: Wikisource deployment planned to start January 13th, 2014, check out the coordination page.

October

• October 29, 2013: Wikidata celebrates its first birthday!

September

• September 23, 2013: Phase 1 of Commons has launched. Now you can link Wikimedia Commons pages with every item.
• September 16, 2013: The first 2 Wikidata oversighters are elected, Ajraddatz and Rschen7754.
• September 10, 2013: The URL datatype is now available, and can be used with the reference URL (P854) and official website (P856) properties.
• September 8, 2013: Wikimedia Commons deployment planned to start September 23rd, check out the coordination page.

August

• August 26, 2013: Phase 2 of Wikidata has gone live on Wikivoyage.

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

• June 10, 2013: The coordinates datatype is now available, and can be used with the coordinate location (P625) property, as it currently is on the New York City item.

May

• May 29, 2013: The long-awaited time datatype is now available, allowing important properties such as date of birth (P569) and date of death (P570). (See George Washington's item, for instance.)

April

• April 24, 2013: Phase 2 of Wikidata is deployed across all editions of Wikipedia.
• April 18/19 2013: A software update has introduced qualifiers and case-insensitive searches.
• April 12, 2013: The first 2 Wikidata bureaucrats are elected. These are Bene* and Vogone.
• April 4, 2013: Property "P107 (P107)" has been used 1000000 times.

March

• March 6, 2013: Phase 1 of Wikidata goes live on the remaining 282 editions of Wikipedia. In addition, more features and bugfixes are deployed, including a new datatype, "string".

February

• February 18, 2013: New features and bugfixes rolled out.
• February 13, 2013: Wikidata phase 1 goes live on the English Wikipedia, with Wikidata language links supplementing locally-hosted ones.
• February 4, 2013: Phase 2 of Wikidata commences, allowing the creation of properties, and of statements for items. For more information, please see Wikidata:Infoboxes task force and Wikidata:Property proposal.

January

• January 30, 2013: Wikidata phase 1 goes live on the Hebrew and Italian Wikipedias. Additionally, the labels and descriptions task force succeeds in creating English labels for all of the first 20,000 items.
• January 24, 2013: All of the articles of French Wikipedia have items in Wikidata.
• January 14, 2013: Wikidata phase 1 goes live on the Hungarian Wikipedia, with Wikidata language links supplementing locally-hosted ones.

2012

December

• December 5, 2012: Wikidata has been updated with lots of bugfixes and a new Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel. For all changes see https://gerrit.wikimedia.org.

November

• November 8, 2012: The first set of local temporary administrators are elected.

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

Items

• 2024-03-19: The one hundred and twenty-five millionth item, about the Martha Speaks episode "Martha's Chair / TD the Pack Rat", is created.
• 2023-12-25: The one hundred and twenty-four millionth item, about the family name "Tannemann", is created.
• 2023-11-15: The Q123456789 item is created and, following much disagreement about its subject and notability, deleted.
• 2023-06-27: The one hundred and twenty millionth item, a disambiguation page, is created.
• 2022-10-19: The number of Wikidata items surpasses 100 million.
• 2022-03-05: Item Q111111111, about Che Lagarto Hostel Porto de Galinhas, the hostel in Porto de Galinhas, Pernambuco, Brazil, is created.
• 2021-12-08: "Antanina Paulavičienė", the one hundred and ten millionth item, is created.
• 2020-10-06 Item Q100000001, about the Franklin Early Childhood School in Australia, is created; since there was no Q100000000, this is the first 9-digit Q-number.
• 2020-05-21 The ninety-five millionth item, about the article "Diagnostik der Nasenklappenstenose mittels eines Nasenklappendilatators durch die anteriore Rhinomanometrie", published in 2010, is created.
• 2020-04-10: The ninety millionth item, about the galaxy "ZFOURGE UDS 19909", is created.
• 2020-03-28: Item Q88888888, about the star "PB 1934", is created.
• 2020-02-13: The eighty-five millionth item, about the article "Determining knowledge and behaviour change after nutrition screening among older adults", published in 2010, is created.
• 2019-12-27: The eighty millionth item, about the artwork "Medal" is created.
• 2019-11-14: The seventy-five millionth item, about the star "HD 321239" is created.
• 2019-10-07: The seventy millionth item, about the chemical compound "3,5-dimethyl-3H-pyrazole", is created.
• 2019-09-29: The sixty-nine millionth item, about the article "The phospholipid and fatty acid composition of Schistosoma mansoni and of its purified tegumental membranes", published in 1987, is created.
• 2019-09-20: The sixty-eight millionth item, about the article "Plagiarism revisited", published in 1992, is created.
• 2019-09-02: The sixty-seven millionth item, about a scientific article published in 2018, is created.
• 2019-07-30: The sixty-six millionth item, about a bank branch, is created.
• 2019-07-03: The sixty-five millionth item, about a scholarly article, is created.
• 2019-05-23: The sixty-four millionth item, about an Indian politician, is created.
• 2019-04-07: The sixty-three millionth item, about a protein, is created.
• 2019-03-08: The sixty-two millionth item, about the ciliate species Dysteria derouxi, is created.
• 2019-01-25: The sixty-one millionth item, a spam item, is created.
• 2018-12-20: The sixty millionth item, about a mitochondrial protein in malaria, is created.
• 2018-11-21: The fifty-nine millionth item, about a journal article published in 1989, is created.
• 2018-10-31: The fifty-eight millionth item, about a journal article published in 2011, is created.
• 2018-10-07: The 57 millionth item, about a French artist, is created.
• 2018-08-06: The 56 millionth item, about a Catalan artist, is created.
• 2018-06-15: The fifty-five millionth item, about a genus of flower weevils, is created.
• 2018-05-23: The fifty-four millionth item, about a scientific article published in January 1973, is created.
• 2018-05-10: The fifty-three millionth item, about a scientific article published in June 2015, is created.
• 2018-04-19: The fifty-two-millionth item, about a scientific article published in May 2004, is created.
• 2018-03-26: The fifty-one-millionth item, about a biologist from Japan, is created.
• 2018-02-23: The fifty-millionth item, about a village in Mexico, is created.
• 2018-02-17: The forty-nine-millionth item, about a dam in the U.S.A., is created.
• 2018-02-07: The forty-eight-millionth item, about a scientific article published in May 1998, is created.
• 2017-12-29: The forty-seven-millionth item, about an article in the Dictionary of French Architecture, is created.
• 2017-12-18: The forty-six-millionth item, about an article in a scientific journal, is created.
• 2017-12-08: The forty-five-millionth item, about an article in a scientific journal, is created.
• 2017-11-28: The forty-four-millionth item, about an article in a scientific journal, is created.
• 2017-11-12: The forty-three-millionth item, about an article in a scientific journal, is created.
• 2017-10-15: The forty-two-millionth item, about an article in a scientific journal, is created.
• 2017-09-25: The forty-one-millionth item is skipped, while Q40999999 and Q41000001 are created.
• 2017-09-16: The forty-millionth item, about a family name, is created.
• 2017-09-08: The thirty-nine-millionth item, about a family name, is created.
• 2017-08-26: The thirty-eight-millionth item, about an article in a scientific journal, is created.
• 2017-08-17: The thirty-seven-millionth item, about an article in a scientific journal, is created.
• 2017-08-11: The thirty-six-millionth item, about an article in a scientific journal, is created.
• 2017-08-05: The thirty-five-millionth item, about a family name, is created.
• 2017-07-30: The thirty-four-millionth item, about an article in a scientific journal, is created.
• 2017-07-13: The thirty-three-millionth item, about a family name, is created.
• 2017-07-05: The thirty-two-millionth item, about a place in Venezuela, is created.
• 2017-06-28: The thirty-one-millionth item, about an article in a scientific journal, is created.
• 2017-05-20: The thirty-millionth item, about an article in a scientific journal, is created.
• 2017-03-22: The twenty-nine-millionth item, about a DNA mismatch repair protein is created.
• 2016-12-12: The twenty-eight-millionth item, about Trees of Spain, is created.
• 2016-09-24: The twenty-seven-millionth item, about a hill in Iceland, is created.
• 2016-07-24: The twenty-six-millionth item, about an Argentinian short film, is created.
• 2016-06-28: The twenty-five-millionth item, about an Indonesian headland, is created.
• 2016-05-03: The twenty-four-millionth item, about a 2016 South Korean film, is created.
• 2016-03-03: The twenty-three-millionth item, about a video of a speech from TEDGlobal 2014, is created.
• 2016-01-09: The twenty-two-millionth item, about a 1950s Kurt Neumann film, is created.
• 2015-09-22: The twenty-one-millionth item, about a phonetic rule in Alemannic, is created.
• 2015-05-28: The twenty-millionth item, about an encyclopedia article of archery, is created.
• 2015-02-07: The nineteen-millionth item, about a military aircraft crash on South Korea's Jeju Island, is created.
• 2014-09-07: The eighteen-millionth item, about a fortress in Yesan, South Korea, is created.
• 2014-05-29: The seventeen-millionth-and-second item, about a 1994 album by Luciano, is created. Q17000000 was a duplicate item and Q17000001 was skipped by the software.
• 2014-04-01: The sixteen-millionth item, about Bernard van Cutsem, an English horsebreeder and racehorse trainer, is created.
• September 30, 2013: The fifteen-millionth item, about a Wikipedia category related to beetles, is created.
• July 17, 2013: The fourteen-millionth item, about Huangjue, a village in Jiuxian Township, China, is created.
• May 8, 2013: The thirteen-millionth item, about a village in Nalgonda district, Andhra Pradesh, India, is created.
• April 27, 2013: The twelve-millionth item, about high-altitude mountaineering, is created.
• April 15, 2013: The eleven-millionth-plus-one item is created, about Nichols Airfield, an airfield in the Philippines. Item Q11000000 was skipped over by the software.
• April 4, 2013: The ten-millionth item, a category of topics related to the Bulgarian city of Pazardzhik, is created.
• March 31, 2013: The nine-millionth item, a category of topics related to the German municipality Langen Brütz, is created.
• March 27, 2013: Phase 2 of Wikidata is deployed on 11 editions of Wikipedia. These projects now have the ability to include Wikidata statements in their articles.
• March 22, 2013: The eight-millionth item, a category of medalists from the 1984 Winter Olympics, is created.
• March 12, 2013: The seven-millionth item is created, about Giuseppe Murnigotti, an Italian inventor.
• March 3, 2013: The six-millionth item is created, about Erik Gabrielsson Emporagrius, a 17th-century Swedish bishop and professor of physics and theology.
• February 20, 2013: The five-millionth item, a template of snooker tournaments, is created, the first milestone item to not have an article as its subject.
• February 2, 2013: Item 4,000,000 is created, just over three months after Wikidata's launch. Its subject is Hildegard Gölz, a German pastor's wife who harbored Jews during the Holocaust.
• January 13, 2013: A Dutch Wikipedia article on the list of mayors of Westdorpe becomes the subject of item three million; six days later, Wikidata makes it one third of the way to item 10,000,000.
• January 4, 2013: Periphragella elisae, a species of sponge, becomes item ID Q2500000.
• December 29, 2012: Item ID two million, Stasina americana, is created within sixty days of Wikidata's launch.
• December 23, 2012: MYD88, a protein that exists in humans, is created as item ID Q1500000.
• December 15, 2012: Finnish television series Matkaoppaat is added as item ID one million.
• December 10, 2012: English town Newton-le-Willows is added to Wikidata, as the subject of Item ID Q750000.
• December 7, 2012: American alpine skier Tim Jitloff becomes the subject of Item ID Q500000, within 55 hours of Q400000's creation.
• December 5, 2012: Item ID Q400000 is reached with a South Korean TV drama.
• December 2, 2012: Human and bot collaboration helps Wikidata reach item ID Q300000, three days after Q200000. The subject is Ars-en-Ré, a commune on the French Atlantic coast.
• December 1, 2012: Item ID Q250000 is created. It is a disambiguation page.
• November 24, 2012: Item ID Q100000 is created. The subject is Cadier en Keer, a Dutch town.
• November 14, 2012: Victory becomes item ID Q50000, fifteen days after Wikidata's launch.
• November 10, 2012: Item ID Q20000 is created. This is about the song "Crawling" by the American rock band Linkin Park.
• November 3, 2012: Item ID Q10000 is created, four days after opening the wiki. The item is "Dutch Wikipedia."
• October 30, 2012: Item Q1000 ("Gabon") is created.
• October 29, 2012: Item Q100 ("Boston") is created.
• October 29, 2012: Item Q1 ("Universe") is created.

Properties

• 2022-10-13: "Female Physicians in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic ID", property number eleven thousand one hundred eleven, is created.
• 2021-10-17: "Research Vocabularies Australia ID", property number ten thousand, is created.
• 2020-12-30: "Ancient History Encyclopedia ID", property number nine thousand, is created.
• 2020-03-21: "electron configuration", property number eight-thousand, is created.
• 2019-07-11: "DigitalNZ ID", property number seven-thousand, is created.
• 2018-10-24: "water footprint", property number six-thousand, is created.
• 2018-03-29: "P5000", property number five-thousand, is created.
• 2017-05-29: "has fruit type", property number four-thousand, is created.
• 2016-07-25: "marriageable age", property number three-thousand, is created.
• 2015-07-17: "CPDL ID", property number two-thousand, is created.
• October 26, 2013: "record held", the one-thousandth property, is created.

Lexemes

• 2023-10-21: Lexeme L1200000, for the Italian (Q652) word 'dismesso', meaning 'discontinued', is created.
• 2023-05-02: Lexeme L1100000, for the Modern Greek (Q36510) word 'σπρώχνω', meaning 'to push someone/something', is created.
• 2023-01-26: Lexeme L1000000, for the Nynorsk (Q25164) word 'etymologi', meaning 'etymology', is created.
• 2022-12-31: Lexeme L900000, for the Bokmål (Q25167) word 'urolog', meaning 'urologist', is created.
• 2022-12-28: Lexeme L800000, for the Nynorsk (Q25164) word 'fotballturnering', meaning 'football tournament', is created.
• 2022-08-31: Lexeme L700000, for the Indonesian (Q9240) word 'sehamparan', meaning 'a stretch', is created.
• 2021-09-30: Lexeme L600000, for the Ukrainian (Q8798) word 'заклепковий', meaning 'made of rivets', is created.
• 2021-06-07: Lexeme:L500000, for the Japanese (Q5287) word '政令指定都市', which is a term for a city with a population greater than 500,000.
• 2020-12-31: Lexeme L400000, for the Estonian (Q9072) word 'kirkalt', meaning 'brightly', is created.
• 2020-05-18: Lexeme L300000, for the Lojban (Q36350) word '.ei', expressing obligation, is created.
• 2019-11-13: Lexeme L222222, for the Kurdish word qertaf ('appendix'), is created.
• 2019-10-11: Lexeme L200000 for the English word "spiritualistically" is created.
• 2019-09-11 and -12: Lexeme L90000 and Lexeme L100000, the Russian words балеарец ('Balearic man') and мир ('world'), are created.
• 2019-09-08: Lexeme L80000, the Hebrew word סוגיה (meaning "issue") is created.
• 2019-08-31: Lexeme L70000, the Basque word 'facsimile', is created.
• 2019-08-20: Lexeme L60000, the Kurdish word 'qetandin', is created.
• 2019‎-06-21: Lexeme L50000, the German word 'fünfzigtausend' (meaning 50,000), is created.
• 2018-12-14: Lexeme L40000, about the Swedish adjective "tyskfödd", is created.
• 2018-10-26: Lexeme L33333, about the Swedish noun "app", is created.
• 2018-10-11: Lexeme L30000, about the English noun "autonomy", is created.
• 2018-09-19: Lexeme L22222, about French proper noun "Cité du Vatican", is created.
• 2018-09-10: Lexeme L20000, about the English adjective "alike", is created.
• 2018-08-04: The ten-thousandth lexeme, about a noun "кыв" in Komi language, is created.
• 2018-08-02: The nine-thousandth lexeme, a Japanese verb meaning "consider carefully and deeply", is created.
• 2018-08-01: L8888 and P5555 are created two weeks after Q‍55555555.
• 2018-07-30: The eight-thousandth lexeme, about a numeral "cēnxiquipilli" in Nahuatl language, is created.
• 2018-07-18: The seven-thousandth lexeme, about a verb "threaten" in English language, is created.
• 2018-07-05: The six-thousandth lexeme, about a proper noun "Føroyar" in Faroese language, is created.
• 2018-06-28: The five-thousandth lexeme, about a interjection "jau" in Nynorsk language, is created.
• 2018-06-22: The four-thousandth lexeme, an English verb meaning "do", is created.
• 2018-06-15: The three-thousandth lexeme, an English adverb meaning "up", is created.
• 2018-05-29: The two-thousandth lexeme, a Gujarati noun meaning "the end", is created.
• 2018-05-24: The thousandth lexeme, about a pronoun in Nynorsk language, is created.
• 2018-05-23: The first version of lexicographical data is deployed. Lexeme L1 is about the Sumerian word for mother, 𒂼.

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.

Edits

• 2024-05-07: Wikidata records its 2³¹th edit, the revision IDs not fitting into 32-bit signed integer anymore
• 2023-10-29: Wikidata records its 2,000,000,000th edit.
• 2023-05-20: Wikidata records its 1,900,000,000th edit.
• 2023-01-01: Wikidata records its 1,800,000,000th edit.
• 2022-08-09: Wikidata records its 1,700,000,000th edit.
• 2022-03-21: Wikidata records its 1,600,000,000th edit.
• 2021-09-19: Wikidata records its 1,500,000,000th edit.
• 2021-04-11: Wikidata records its 1,400,000,000th edit.
• 2020-10-31: Wikidata records its 1,300,000,000th edit.
• 2020-06-06: Wikidata records its 1,200,000,000th edit.
• 2020-01-17: Wikidata records its 1,100,000,000th edit.
• 2019-08-21: Wikidata records its 1,000,000,000th edit.
• 2019-04-02: Wikidata records its 900,000,000 edit.
• 2019-03-15: Wikidata records its 883,173,631 edit, overtaking the English Wikipedia to become the most edited Wikimedia website.
• 2018-06-21: Wikidata reached 700,000,000 edits.
• 2017-11-28: The 600,000,000th edit has been made.
• 2017-06-12: Wikidata reaches to 500,000,000 edits.
• 2016-11-02: Wikidata reached 400,000,000 edits.
• 2016-02-03: Wikidata reached 300,000,000 edits.
• 2015-02-28: Wikidata reached 200,000,000 edits.
• December 30, 2013: Wikidata reached 100,000,000 edits.
• June 9, 2013: Wikidata is edited for the 50,000,000th time, just over seven months after the site's creation. Wikidata is the eighth-ever Wikimedia project to pass this milestone, and one of only two to do so that are not Wikipedias.