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2021-10-17: "Research Vocabularies Australia ID", property number ten-thousand, 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.
2020-12-30: "Ancient History Encyclopedia ID", property number nine-thousand, is created.

Older entries

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.
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.
2020-05-18: Lexeme L300000, for the Lojban (Q36350) word '.ei', expressing obligation, is created.
2020-04-10: The ninety millionth item, about the galaxy "ZFOURGE UDS 19909", is created.
2020-03-21: "electron configuration", property number eight-thousand, is created.

2019

September

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

August

2019-08-09: Entity schema 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 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

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.
2020-03-28: 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 29, 2012: Item Q1 ("Universe") is created.

Property

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.

Lexeme

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.

Edits

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.

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