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== Current news ==

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* 2024-04-05: Wikidata holds the [[Wikidata:Events/Leveling Up Days 2024|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 [[Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events#Office_hours|Wikidata+Wikibase office hour]] on Wednesday, 10th April 2024 (18:00 Berlin) in the Wikidata Telegram group.
* 2024-03-12: Wikidata records its [[Special:Diff/2100000000|2,100,000,000th edit]].
* 2024-01-24: Wikidata tool {{Q|Q20084080}} ran its [https://quickstatements.toolforge.org/#/batch/222222 batch 222222].
* 2024-01-17: The Wikidata development team held [[Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events#Office_hours|Wikidata+Wikibase office hour]], talking about what they've been working on. Find the session log [[Wikidata:Events/Telegram office hour 2024-01-17|here]].
* 2023-11-30: Wikidata holds the [[Wikidata:Events/Data Modelling Days 2023|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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== Older entries ==

=== {{#time:Y|2023}} ===
* 2023-10-29: Wikidata is now 11 years old! [[Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Eleventh Birthday|Happy birthday!]]
* 2023-10-18: The Wikidata development team talk about what they've been working on in the [[Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events#Office_hours|office hours]] at 16:00 UTC on Telegram.
* 2023-05-13: Wikidata tool {{Q|Q20084080}} ran its [[:toolforge:quickstatements/#/batch/200000|batch 200000]].

=== {{#time:Y|2022}} ===
* 2022-11-09: The Wikidata development team talk about what they've been working on in the [[Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events#Office_hours|office hours]] at 17:00 UTC on Telegram.
* 2022-10-29: Wikidata is now 10 years old! [[Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Tenth Birthday|Happy birthday!]]
* 2022-10-03: Wikidata tool {{Q|Q20084080}} ran its [[:toolforge:quickstatements/#/batch/100000|batch 100000]], tagging documents for {{Q|Q114364300}}.
* 2022-07-27: The Wikidata development team talk about what they've been working on in the [[Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events#Office_hours|office hours]] at 17:00 UTC on Telegram.
* 2022-07-21: [[Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Wiktionary#Lua_access_to_Lexemes|Lua access for lexemes]] is now available on all Wikimedia projects.
* 2022-07: Wikidata holds the [[Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events/Data Quality Days 2022|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 [[Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events#Office_hours|office hours]] at 17:00 UTC on Telegram.
* 2022-03: Wikidata holds the [[Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events/Data Reuse Days 2022|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 [[Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events#Office_hours|office hours]] at 17:00 UTC on Telegram.

=== {{#time:Y|2021}} ===
* 2021-10-29: Wikidata turns 9! [[Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Ninth Birthday|Happy birthday!]]
* 2021-10: [[Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikidataCon 2021|WikidataCon 2021]] takes place online from the 29th to the 31st.
* 2021-09: Wikidata holds the [[Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events/Data Quality Days 2021|Data Quality Days]], a series of online events focusing on data quality, from the 8th to the 15th.

=== {{#time:Y|2020}} ===
* On October 29th, we celebrate Wikidata's 8th birthday. You can have a look at [[Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Eighth Birthday|the events organized by the community]], the [[Wikidata:Eighth Birthday/Presents|presents and messages]].

=== {{#time:Y|2019}} ===

==== {{#time:F|2019-09}} ====
* 2019-09-20: Wikidata passed 8 billion [[Q3539534|triples]] ([https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1176068365108088832 source])

==== {{#time:F|2019-08}} ====
* 2019-08-09: [[Wikidata:Project_chat/Archive/2019/08#New_data_type_for_EntitySchemas|Entity schema]]s are enabled on Wikidata.

==== {{#time:F|2019-03}} ====
* 2019-03-21: Link support with Wikimania has been added ([[Wikidata:Contact_the_development_team/Archive/2019/02#Wikimaniawiki|The discussion]])

==== {{#time:F|2019-01}} ====
* 2019-01-19: Wikidata passed 7 billion triples ([https://twitter.com/EvoMRI/status/1088915891050434560 source])

=== {{#time:Y|2018}} ===

==== {{#time:F|2018-10}} ====
* 2018-10-29: [[Wikidata:Sixth Birthday|Wikidata celebrates its sixth birthday!]]
* 2018-10-18: [[Wikidata_talk:Lexicographical_data/Archive/2018/10#Senses_are_now_part_of_Lexicographical_Data|Senses are now part of Lexicographical Data]].

==== {{#time:F|2018-04}} ====
* 2018-04-20: Wikidata passed 5 billion triples ([https://twitter.com/EvoMRI/status/987218998742994945 source])
* 2018-04-12: The deployment of the first version of [[Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Lexicographical data|lexicographical data]] is planned for end of May 2018.

==== {{#time:F|2018-03}} ====
* 2018-03-03: The deployment of the first version of [[Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Lexicographical data|lexicographical data]] is planned for April 2018.

=== {{#time:Y|2017}} ===

==== {{#time:F|2017-11}} ====
* 2017-11-30: Wikidata passed 4 billion triples ([https://twitter.com/sebotic/status/936145518719152128 source])

==== {{#time:F|2017-06}} ====
* 2017-06-20: Phase 1 of [[Q151|Wiktionary]] has launched. Now you can link [[wikt:|Wiktionary]] pages with every item for all the Wiktionaries namespaces (except main, citations, user and talk).
* 2017-06-01: Phase 1 of [[Q151|Wiktionary]] is planned to start June 20th.

==== {{#time:F|2017-05}} ====
* 2017-05-15: Tabular data [[Special:ListDatatypes|datatype]] has launched.

==== {{#time:F|2017-04}} ====
* 2017-04-24: Geographic shape [[Special:ListDatatypes|datatype]] has launched.
* 2017-04-24: Phase 0 (automatic interwiki links) of [[Q151|Wiktionary]] has launched.
* 2017-04-05: Phase 0 (automatic interwiki links) of [[Q151|Wiktionary]] is planned to start April 24th, 2017, check out the {{ll|Wikidata:Wiktionary|coordination page}}.

=== {{#time:Y|2016}} ===
==== {{#time:F|2016-10}} ====
* 2016-10-29: [[Wikidata:Fourth Birthday|Wikidata celebrates its fourth birthday!]]

==== {{#time:F|2016-05}} ====
* 2016-05-11: [[mw:Extension:ArticlePlaceholder|ArticlePlaceholder]] has launched.
* 2016-05-04: Phase 2 of [[Q370|Wikiversity]] has launched.

==== {{#time:F|2016-04}} ====
* 2016-04-26: {{ll|WD:Arbitrary access|Arbitrary access}} is deployed to Wikimedia Commons.

==== {{#time:F|2016-02}} ====
* 2016-02-23: Phase 1 of [[Q370|Wikiversity]] has launched.
* 2016-02-16: The [[Special:ListDatatypes|datatype]] identifier has launched, and the "in other projects" sidebar is enabled by default on all projects except [[w:nl:|Dutch Wikipedia]].
* 2016-02-09: The mathematical expression [[Special:ListDatatypes|datatype]] has launched.
* 2016-02-01: [[Q370|Wikiversity]] deployment planned to start February 23rd, check out the [[Wikidata:Wikiversity|coordination page]].

=== {{#time:Y|2015}} ===
==== {{#time:F|2015-10}} ====
* 2015-10-29: {{ll|Wikidata:Third Birthday|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.

==== {{#time:F|2015-09}} ====
* 2015-09-22: Phase 2 of [[Q367|Wikibooks]] has launched.
* 2015-09-16: {{ll|WD:Arbitrary access|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: {{ll|WD:Units|Unit}} support has launched.
* 2015-09-09: Usage tracking is deployed to every Wikimedia wikis that phase 1 supported.

==== {{#time:F|2015-07}} ====
* 2015-07-07: Wikibase Quality Extensions have launched. Now we can view [[Special:ConstraintReport|the constraint report of an item]].

==== {{#time:F|2015-06}} ====
* 2015-06-01: {{ll|WD:Arbitrary access|Arbitrary access}} for Italian Wikipedia and all remaining Wikisource projects has launched.

==== {{#time:F|2015-05}} ====
* 2015-05-11: {{ll|WD:Arbitrary access|Arbitrary access}} for Dutch Wikipedia and French Wikisource has launched.
* 2015-05-06: {{ll|WD:Arbitrary access|Arbitrary access}} for Dutch Wikipedia and French Wikisource is planned to start May 11th.

==== {{#time:F|2015-02}} ====
* 2015-02-24: Phase 1 of [[Q367|Wikibooks]] has launched. Now you can link [[b:|Wikibooks]] pages with every item.
* 2015-02-06: [[Q367|Wikibooks]] deployment planned to start February 24th, check out the [[Wikidata:Wikibooks|coordination page]].

=== {{#time:Y|2014}} ===
==== {{#time:F|2014-12}} ====
* 2014-12-17: Language fallbacks and property [[Special:ListDatatypes|datatype]] have launched.
* 2014-12-16: [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/freebase-discuss/s_BPoL92edc 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 [[Q565|Wikimedia Commons]] has launched.

==== {{#time:F|2014-11}} ====
* 2014-11-04: [http://opendatainstitute.org/news/first-odi-open-data-awards-presented-by-sir-tim-berners-lee-and-sir-nigel-shadbolt Wikidata wins the Open Data Award by the Open Data Institute in the category Publisher]

==== {{#time:F|2014-10}} ====
* 2014-10-29: [[Wikidata:Second_Birthday|Wikidata turns two!]]

==== {{#time:F|2014-08}} ====
* 2014-08-19: Sitelink to [[Q964|Wikinews]] and [[Q2013|Wikidata]], badges, redirects between items, and monolingual text [[Special:ListDatatypes|datatype]] have launched.

==== {{#time:F|2014-07}} ====
* 2014-07-22: [[Q964|Wikinews]] deployment planned to start August 19th, check out the [[Wikidata:Wikinews|coordination page]].

==== {{#time:F|2014-06}} ====
* 2014-06-10: Phase 2 of [[Q369|Wikiquote]] has launched.

==== {{#time:F|2014-04}} ====
* 2014-04-08: Phase 1 of [[Q369|Wikiquote]] has launched. Now you can link [[q:|Wikiquote]] pages with every item.

==== {{#time:F|2014-03}} ====
* 2014-03-07: [[Q369|Wikiquote]] deployment planned to start April 8th, check out the [[Wikidata:Wikiquote|coordination page]].

==== {{#time:F|2014-02}} ====
* 2014-02-25: {{Ll|Wikidata:Introduction#Timeline|Phase 2}} of [[Q263|Wikisource]] has launched to allow data access, and performance improvements were deployed.

==== {{#time:F|2014-01}} ====
* January 31, 2014: The quantities [[Special:ListDatatypes|datatype]] is introduced.
* January 14, 2014: {{Ll|Wikidata:Introduction#Timeline|Phase 1}} of [[Q263|Wikisource]] has launched. Now you can link [[s:|Wikisource]] pages with every item.

=== {{#time:Y|2013}} ===
==== {{#time:F|2013-12}} ====
* 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.

==== {{#time:F|2013-11}} ====
* November 2, 2013: [[Q263|Wikisource]] deployment planned to start January 13th, 2014, check out the [[Wikidata:Wikisource|coordination page]].

==== {{#time:F|2013-10}} ====
* October 29, 2013: Wikidata celebrates [[Wikidata:First Birthday|its first birthday]]!

==== {{#time:F|2013-09}} ====
* September 23, 2013: {{Ll|Wikidata:Wikimedia Commons#Phase 1 (Interlinks)|Phase 1}} of Commons has launched. Now you can link [[commons:|Wikimedia Commons]] pages with every item.
* September 16, 2013: The first 2 {{Ll|Wikidata:Oversight|Wikidata oversighters}} are elected, [[user:Ajraddatz|Ajraddatz]] and [[user:Rschen7754|Rschen7754]].
* September 10, 2013: The [[Special:ListDatatypes|URL]] datatype is now available, and can be used with the {{property|854}} and {{property|856}} properties.
* September 8, 2013: [[Q565|Wikimedia Commons]] deployment planned to start September 23rd, check out the [[Wikidata:Wikimedia Commons|coordination page]].

==== {{#time:F|2013-08}} ====
* August 26, 2013: {{Ll|Wikidata:Introduction#Timeline|Phase 2}} of Wikidata [[Wikidata:Project chat/Archive/2013/08#Data acccess for Wikivoyage and bugfixes plus testing needed for the URL datatype|has gone live]] on [[Q373|Wikivoyage]].

==== {{#time:F|2013-07}} ====
* July 23, 2013: {{Ll|Wikidata:Introduction#Timeline|Phase 1}} of Wikidata [[Wikidata:Project chat/Archive/2013/07#Wikivoyage is here and new features/bugfixes|has gone live]] on [[Q373|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: [[Q373|Wikivoyage]] deployment planned to start July 23rd, check out the [[Wikidata:Wikivoyage migration|coordination page]].

==== {{#time:F|2013-06}} ====
* June 10, 2013: The [[Special:ListDatatypes|coordinates datatype]] is now available, and can be used with the {{property|625}} property, as it currently is on the [[Q60|New York City]] item.

==== {{#time:F|2013-05}} ====
* May 29, 2013: The long-awaited [[Special:ListDatatypes|time datatype]] is now available, allowing important properties such as {{property|569}} and {{property|570}}. (See [[q23|George Washington's item]], for instance.)

==== {{#time:F|2013-04}} ====
* April 24, 2013: {{Ll|Wikidata:Introduction#Timeline|Phase 2}} of Wikidata is [[WMDEblog:2013/04/24/wikidata-all-around-the-world/|deployed across all editions of Wikipedia]].
* April 18/19 2013: A software update has introduced {{Glossary|Qualifier|qualifiers}} and case-insensitive searches.
* April 12, 2013: The first 2 {{Ll|Wikidata:Bureaucrats|Wikidata bureaucrats}} are elected. These are [[User:Bene*|Bene*]] and [[User:Vogone|Vogone]].
* April 4, 2013: Property "{{property|107}}" has been used 1000000 times.

==== {{#time:F|2013-03}} ====
* March 6, 2013: {{Ll|Wikidata:Introduction#Timeline|Phase 1}} of Wikidata [[WMDEblog:2013/03/06/wikidata-now-live-on-all-wikipedias/|goes live]] on the remaining 282 [[Q5296|editions of Wikipedia]]. In addition, [[Wikidata:Project chat/Archive/2013/03#Phase 1 live on all remaining Wikipedias and bugfixes/new feature here|more features and bugfixes are deployed]], including a new datatype, "string".

==== {{#time:F|2013-02}} ====
* February 18, 2013: [[Wikidata:Project chat/Archive/2013/02#New features and bugfixes rolled out|New features and bugfixes rolled out]].
* February 13, 2013: Wikidata {{Ll|Wikidata:Introduction#Timeline|phase 1}} [[WMDEblog:2013/02/13/wikidata-live-on-the-english-wikipedia/|goes live]] on the {{item|English Wikipedia|en}}, with Wikidata language links supplementing locally-hosted ones.
* February 4, 2013: {{Ll|Wikidata:Introduction#Timeline|Phase 2}} of Wikidata [[WMDEblog:2013/02/04/first-parts-of-phase-2-of-wikidata-going-live|commences]], allowing the creation of {{glossary|Property|properties}}, and of {{glossary|Statement|statements}} for items. For more information, please see [[Wikidata:Infoboxes task force]] and {{Ll|Wikidata:Property proposal|Wikidata:Property proposal}}.

==== {{#time:F|2013-01}} ====
* January 30, 2013: Wikidata {{Ll|Wikidata:Introduction#Timeline|phase 1}} [[WMDEblog: 2013/01/30/wikidata-coming-to-the-next-two-wikipedias|goes live]] on the {{item|Hebrew Wikipedia|enwiki|Hebrew}} and {{item|Italian Wikipedia|enwiki|Italian}} Wikipedias. Additionally, the [[Wikidata:Labels and descriptions task force|labels and descriptions task force]] [[Special:Diff/5407293|succeeds]] in creating English {{Glossary|Label|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 {{Ll|Wikidata:Introduction#Timeline|phase 1}} [[WMDEblog:2013/01/14/first-steps-of-wikidata-in-the-hungarian-wikipedia|goes live]] on the {{item|Hungarian Wikipedia}}, with Wikidata language links supplementing locally-hosted ones.

=== {{#time:Y|2012}} ===
==== {{#time:F|2012-12}} ====
* December 5, 2012: Wikidata has been updated with lots of bugfixes and a new [[Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel]]. For all changes see [https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/mw1.21-wmf5 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org].

==== {{#time:F|2012-11}} ====
* November 8, 2012: The first set of local {{Ll|Wikidata:Administrators|temporary administrators}} are elected.

==== {{#time:F|2012-10}} ====
* October 30, 2012: Wikidata is launched. Several bugs have been fixed and the Wikidata repository should be functional. [[Wikidata:Contact the development team|Please report errors!]]
* October 26, 2012: The Wikidata database is created but is not available for editing yet.

== Milestones ==

=== Items ===
* 2024-03-19: [[Q125000000|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: [[Q124000000|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: [[Q120000000|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: [[Q111111111|Item Q111111111]], about Che Lagarto Hostel Porto de Galinhas, the hostel in Porto de Galinhas, Pernambuco, Brazil, is created.
* 2021-12-08: [[Q110000000|"Antanina Paulavičienė"]], the one hundred and ten millionth item, is created.
* 2020-10-06 [[Q100000001|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 [[Q95000000|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: [[Q90000000|The ninety millionth item]], about the galaxy "ZFOURGE UDS 19909", is created.
* 2020-03-28: [[Q88888888|Item Q88888888]], about the star "PB 1934", is created.
* 2020-02-13: [[Q85000000|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: [[Q80000000|The eighty millionth item]], about the artwork "Medal" is created.
* 2019-11-14: [[Q75000000|The seventy-five millionth item]], about the star "HD 321239" is created.
* 2019-10-07: [[Q70000000|The seventy millionth item]], about the chemical compound "3,5-dimethyl-3H-pyrazole", is created.
* 2019-09-29: [[Q69000000|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: [[Q68000000|The sixty-eight millionth item]], about the article "Plagiarism revisited", published in 1992, is created.
* 2019-09-02: [[Q67000000|The sixty-seven millionth item]], about a scientific article published in 2018, is created.
* 2019-07-30: [[Q66000000|The sixty-six millionth item]], about a bank branch, is created.
* 2019-07-03: [[Q65000000|The sixty-five millionth item]], about a scholarly article, is created.
* 2019-05-23: [[Q64000000|The sixty-four millionth item]], about an Indian politician, is created.
* 2019-04-07: [[Q63000000|The sixty-three millionth item]], about a protein, is created.
* 2019-03-08: [[Q62000000|The sixty-two millionth item]], about the ciliate species ''Dysteria derouxi'', is created.
* 2019-01-25: [[Q61000000|The sixty-one millionth item]], a spam item, is created.
* 2018-12-20: [[Q60000000|The sixty millionth item]], about a mitochondrial protein in malaria, is created.
* 2018-11-21: [[Q59000000|The fifty-nine millionth item]], about a journal article published in 1989, is created.
* 2018-10-31: [[Q58000000|The fifty-eight millionth item]], about a journal article published in 2011, is created.
* 2018-10-07: [[Q57000000|The 57 millionth item]], about a French artist, is created.
* 2018-08-06: [[Q56000000|The 56 millionth item]], about a Catalan artist, is created.
* 2018-06-15: [[Q55000000|The fifty-five millionth item]], about a genus of flower weevils, is created.
* 2018-05-23: [[Q54000000|The fifty-four millionth item]], about a scientific article published in January 1973, is created.
* 2018-05-10: [[Q53000000|The fifty-three millionth item]], about a scientific article published in June 2015, is created.
* 2018-04-19: [[Q52000000|The fifty-two-millionth item]], about a scientific article published in May 2004, is created.
* 2018-03-26: [[Q51000000|The fifty-one-millionth item]], about a biologist from Japan, is created.
* 2018-02-23: [[Q50000000|The fifty-millionth item]], about a village in Mexico, is created.
* 2018-02-17: [[Q49000000|The forty-nine-millionth item]], about a dam in the U.S.A., is created.
* 2018-02-07: [[Q48000000|The forty-eight-millionth item]], about a scientific article published in May 1998, is created.
* 2017-12-29: [[Q47000000|The forty-seven-millionth item]], about an article in the Dictionary of French Architecture, is created.
* 2017-12-18: [[Q46000000|The forty-six-millionth item]], about an article in a scientific journal, is created.
* 2017-12-08: [[Q45000000|The forty-five-millionth item]], about an article in a scientific journal, is created.
* 2017-11-28: [[Q44000000|The forty-four-millionth item]], about an article in a scientific journal, is created.
* 2017-11-12: [[Q43000000|The forty-three-millionth item]], about an article in a scientific journal, is created.
* 2017-10-15: [[Q42000000|The forty-two-millionth item]], about an article in a scientific journal, is created.
* 2017-09-25: [[Q41000000|The forty-one-millionth item]] is skipped, while [[Q40999999|Q40999999]] and [[Q41000001|Q41000001]] are created.
* 2017-09-16: [[Q40000000|The forty-millionth item]], about a family name, is created.
* 2017-09-08: [[Q39000000|The thirty-nine-millionth item]], about a family name, is created.
* 2017-08-26: [[Q38000000|The thirty-eight-millionth item]], about an article in a scientific journal, is created.
* 2017-08-17: [[Q37000000|The thirty-seven-millionth item]], about an article in a scientific journal, is created.
* 2017-08-11: [[Q36000000|The thirty-six-millionth item]], about an article in a scientific journal, is created.
* 2017-08-05: [[Q35000000|The thirty-five-millionth item]], about a family name, is created.
* 2017-07-30: [[Q34000000|The thirty-four-millionth item]], about an article in a scientific journal, is created.
* 2017-07-13: [[Q33000000|The thirty-three-millionth item]], about a family name, is created.
* 2017-07-05: [[Q32000000|The thirty-two-millionth item]], about a place in Venezuela, is created.
* 2017-06-28: [[Q31000000|The thirty-one-millionth item]], about an article in a scientific journal, is created.
* 2017-05-20: [[Q30000000|The thirty-millionth item]], about an article in a scientific journal, is created.
* 2017-03-22: [[Q29000000|The twenty-nine-millionth item]], about a DNA mismatch repair protein is created.
* 2016-12-12: [[Q28000000|The twenty-eight-millionth item]], about Trees of Spain, is created.
* 2016-09-24: [[Q27000000|The twenty-seven-millionth item]], about a hill in Iceland, is created.
* 2016-07-24: [[Q26000000|The twenty-six-millionth item]], about an Argentinian short film, is created.
* 2016-06-28: [[Q25000000|The twenty-five-millionth item]], about an Indonesian headland, is created.
* 2016-05-03: [[Q24000000|The twenty-four-millionth item]], about a 2016 South Korean film, is created.
* 2016-03-03: [[Q23000000|The twenty-three-millionth item]], about a video of a speech from TEDGlobal 2014, is created.
* 2016-01-09: [[Q22000000|The twenty-two-millionth item]], about a 1950s Kurt Neumann film, is created.
* 2015-09-22: [[Q21000000|The twenty-one-millionth item]], about a phonetic rule in Alemannic, is created.
* 2015-05-28: [[Q20000000|The twenty-millionth item]], about an encyclopedia article of archery, is created.
* 2015-02-07: [[Q19000000|The nineteen-millionth item]], about a military aircraft crash on South Korea's Jeju Island, is created.
* 2014-09-07: [[Q18000000|The eighteen-millionth item]], about a fortress in Yesan, South Korea, is created.
* 2014-05-29: [[Q17000002|The seventeen-millionth-and-second item]], about a 1994 album by [[Q630076|Luciano]], is created. [[Q17000000]] was a duplicate item and [[Q17000001]] was skipped by the software.
* 2014-04-01: [[Q16000000|The sixteen-millionth item]], about Bernard van Cutsem, an English horsebreeder and racehorse trainer, is created.
* September 30, 2013: [[Q15000000|The fifteen-millionth item]], about a Wikipedia category related to beetles, is created.
* July 17, 2013: [[Q14000000|The fourteen-millionth item]], about Huangjue, a village in Jiuxian Township, China, is created.
* May 8, 2013: [[Q13000000|The thirteen-millionth item]], about a village in Nalgonda district, Andhra Pradesh, India, is created.
* April 27, 2013: [[Q12000000|The twelve-millionth item]], about high-altitude mountaineering, is created.
* April 15, 2013: [[Q11000001|The eleven-millionth-plus-one item]] is created, about Nichols Airfield, an airfield in the Philippines. Item [[Q11000000]] was [[Wikidata:Contact the development team/Archive/2013/04#Q11000000 missing?|skipped over by the software]].
* April 4, 2013: [[Q10000000|The ten-millionth item]], a category of topics related to the Bulgarian city of Pazardzhik, is created.
* March 31, 2013: [[Q9000000|The nine-millionth item]], a category of topics related to the German municipality Langen Brütz, is created.
* March 27, 2013: {{Ll|Wikidata:Introduction#Timeline|Phase 2}} of Wikidata is [[WMDEblog:2013/03/27/you-can-have-all-the-data/|deployed on 11 editions of Wikipedia]]. These projects now have the ability to include Wikidata {{glossary|Statement|statements}} in their articles.
* March 22, 2013: [[Q8000000|The eight-millionth item]], a category of medalists from the 1984 Winter Olympics, is created.
* March 12, 2013: [[Q7000000|The seven-millionth item]] is created, about Giuseppe Murnigotti, an Italian inventor.
* March 3, 2013: [[Q6000000|The six-millionth item]] is created, about Erik Gabrielsson Emporagrius, a 17th-century Swedish bishop and professor of physics and theology.
* February 20, 2013: [[Q5000000|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: [[Q4000000|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 [[Q3000000|list of mayors of Westdorpe]] becomes the subject of item three million; six days later, Wikidata makes it [[Q3333333|one third of the way]] to item 10,000,000.
* January 4, 2013: ''[[Q2500000|Periphragella elisae]]'', a species of sponge, becomes item ID Q2500000.
* December 29, 2012: Item ID [[Q2000000|two million]], ''Stasina americana'', is created within sixty days of Wikidata's launch.
* December 23, 2012: [[Q1500000|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 [[Q1000000|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 {{Ll|Wikidata:Bots|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: [[Q50000|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: [[Property:P11111|"Female Physicians in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic ID"]], property number eleven thousand one hundred eleven, is created.
* 2021-10-17: [[Property:P10000|"Research Vocabularies Australia ID"]], property number ten thousand, is created.
* 2020-12-30: [[Property:P9000|"Ancient History Encyclopedia ID"]], property number nine thousand, is created.
* 2020-03-21: [[Property:P8000|"electron configuration"]], property number eight-thousand, is created.
* 2019-07-11: "[[Property:P7000|{{label|P7000}}]]", {{glossary|property|property}} number seven-thousand, is created.
* 2018-10-24: "[[Property:P6000|{{label|P6000}}]]", {{glossary|property|property}} number six-thousand, is created.
* 2018-03-29: "[[Property:P5000|{{label|P5000}}]]", {{glossary|property|property}} number five-thousand, is created.
* 2017-05-29: "[[P:P4000|{{label|P4000}}]]", {{glossary|property|property}} number four-thousand, is created.
* 2016-07-25: "[[P:P3000|{{label|P3000}}]]", {{glossary|property|property}} number three-thousand, is created.
* 2015-07-17: "[[P:P2000|{{label|P2000}}]]", {{glossary|property|property}} number two-thousand, is created.
* October 26, 2013: "[[P:P1000|{{label|P1000}}]]", the one-thousandth {{glossary|property|property}}, is created.

=== Lexemes ===
* 2023-10-21: [[Lexeme:L1200000|Lexeme L1200000]], for the {{Q|Q652}} word 'dismesso', meaning 'discontinued', is created.
* 2023-05-02: [[Lexeme:L1100000|Lexeme L1100000]], for the {{Q|Q36510}} word 'σπρώχνω', meaning 'to push someone/something', is created.
* 2023-01-26: [[Lexeme:L1000000|Lexeme L1000000]], for the {{Q|Q25164}} word 'etymologi', meaning 'etymology', is created.
* 2022-12-31: [[Lexeme:L900000|Lexeme L900000]], for the {{Q|Q25167}} word 'urolog', meaning 'urologist', is created.
* 2022-12-28: [[Lexeme:L800000|Lexeme L800000]], for the {{Q|Q25164}} word 'fotballturnering', meaning 'football tournament', is created.
* 2022-08-31: [[Lexeme:L700000|Lexeme L700000]], for the {{Q|Q9240}} word 'sehamparan', meaning 'a stretch', is created.
* 2021-09-30: [[Lexeme:L600000|Lexeme L600000]], for the {{Q|Q8798}} word 'заклепковий', meaning 'made of rivets', is created.
* 2021-06-07: [[Lexeme:L500000|Lexeme:L500000]], for the {{Q|5287}} 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|Lexeme L400000]], for the {{Q|Q9072}} word 'kirkalt', meaning 'brightly', is created.
* 2020-05-18: [[Lexeme:L300000|Lexeme L300000]], for the {{Q|Q36350}} word '.ei', expressing obligation, is created.
* 2019-11-13: [[Lexeme:L222222|Lexeme L222222]], for the Kurdish word qertaf ('appendix'), is created.
* 2019-10-11: [[Lexeme:L200000|Lexeme L200000]] for the English word "spiritualistically" is created.
* 2019-09-11 and -12: [[Lexeme:L90000|Lexeme L90000]] and [[Lexeme:L100000|Lexeme L100000]], the Russian words балеарец ('Balearic man') and мир ('world'), are created.
* 2019-09-08: [[Lexeme:L80000|Lexeme L80000]], the Hebrew word סוגיה (meaning "issue") is created.
* 2019-08-31: [[Lexeme:L70000|Lexeme L70000]], the Basque word 'facsimile', is created.
* 2019-08-20: [[Lexeme:L60000|Lexeme L60000]], the Kurdish word 'qetandin', is created.
* 2019‎-06-21: [[Lexeme:L50000|Lexeme L50000]], the German word 'fünfzigtausend' (meaning 50,000), is created.
* 2018-12-14: [[Lexeme:L40000|Lexeme L40000]], about the Swedish adjective "tyskfödd", is created.
* 2018-10-26: [[Lexeme:L33333|Lexeme L33333]], about the Swedish noun "app", is created.
* 2018-10-11: [[Lexeme:L30000|Lexeme L30000]], about the English noun "autonomy", is created.
* 2018-09-19: [[Lexeme:L22222|Lexeme L22222]], about French proper noun "Cité du Vatican", is created.
* 2018-09-10: [[Lexeme:L20000|Lexeme L20000]], about the English adjective "alike", is created.
* 2018-08-04: [[Lexeme:L10000|The ten-thousandth lexeme]], about a noun "кыв" in Komi language, is created.
* 2018-08-02: [[Lexeme:L9000|The nine-thousandth lexeme]], a Japanese verb meaning "consider carefully and deeply", is created.
* 2018-08-01: [[Lexeme:L8888|L8888]] and [[Property:P5555|P5555]] are created two weeks after [[Q55555555|Q&zwj;55555555]].
* 2018-07-30: [[Lexeme:L8000|The eight-thousandth lexeme]], about a numeral "cēnxiquipilli" in Nahuatl language, is created.
* 2018-07-18: [[Lexeme:L7000|The seven-thousandth lexeme]], about a verb "threaten" in English language, is created.
* 2018-07-05: [[Lexeme:L6000|The six-thousandth lexeme]], about a proper noun "Føroyar" in Faroese language, is created.
* 2018-06-28: [[Lexeme:L5000|The five-thousandth lexeme]], about a interjection "jau" in Nynorsk language, is created.
* 2018-06-22: [[Lexeme:L4000|The four-thousandth lexeme]], an English verb meaning "do", is created.
* 2018-06-15: [[Lexeme:L3000|The three-thousandth lexeme]], an English adverb meaning "up", is created.
* 2018-05-29: [[Lexeme:L2000|The two-thousandth lexeme]], a Gujarati noun meaning "the end", is created.
* 2018-05-24: [[Lexeme:L1000|The thousandth lexeme]], about a pronoun in Nynorsk language, is created.
* 2018-05-23: The first version of [[Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Lexicographical data|lexicographical data]] is deployed. [[Lexeme:L1|Lexeme L1]] is about the Sumerian word for mother, 𒂼.

=== Schemas ===
* 2023-07-21: Entity schema [[EntitySchema:E400|E400]], about an archival resource in the Yale University Art Gallery, is created.
* 2021-04-15: Entity schema [[EntitySchema:E300|E300]], for a motor racing season, is created.
* 2020-04-15: Entity schema [[EntitySchema:E200|E200]], for a Russian noun with paucal, is created.
* 2019-07-21: Entity schema [[EntitySchema:E100|E100]], for a city, is created.
* 2019-05-28: Entity schema [[EntitySchema:E10|E10]], for a human, is created.
* 2019-05-28: Entity schema [[EntitySchema:E1|E1]], for a ShEx entity schema, is created.

=== Edits ===
* 2023-10-29: Wikidata records its [[Special:Diff/2000000000|2,000,000,000th edit]].
* 2023-05-20: Wikidata records its [[Special:Diff/1900000000|1,900,000,000th edit]].
* 2023-01-01: Wikidata records its [[Special:Diff/1800000000|1,800,000,000th edit]].
* 2022-08-09: Wikidata records its [[Special:Diff/1700000000|1,700,000,000th edit]].
* 2022-03-21: Wikidata records its [[Special:Diff/1600000000|1,600,000,000th edit]].
* 2021-09-19: Wikidata records its [[Special:Diff/1500000000|1,500,000,000th edit]].
* 2021-04-11: Wikidata records its [[Special:Diff/1400000000|1,400,000,000th edit]].
* 2020-10-31: Wikidata records its [[Special:Diff/1300000000|1,300,000,000th edit]].
* 2020-06-06: Wikidata records its [[Special:Diff/1200000000|1,200,000,000th edit]].
* 2020-01-17: Wikidata records its [[Special:Diff/1100000000|1,100,000,000th edit]].
* 2019-08-21: Wikidata records its [[Special:Diff/1000000000|1,000,000,000th edit]].
* 2019-04-02: Wikidata records its [[Special:Statistics|900,000,000 edit]].
* 2019-03-15: Wikidata records its [[Special:Statistics|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 [[Special:Diff/600000000|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 [[Special:Diff/50000000|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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