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Wikidata is a free, linked database 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, 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.

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2016-02-01: Wikiversity deployment planned to start February 23th, check out the coordination page.
2016-01-09: The twenty-two-millionth item, about a 1950s Kurt Neumann film, is created.
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.
2015-09-22: The twenty-one-millionth item, about a phonetic rule in Alemannic, is created.
2015-09-22: Phase 2 of Wikibooks has launched.

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property: highest point (P610)
custom value: Mount Everest (Q513)

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