# Wikidata:Main Page
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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.
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