Wikidata is a free, collaborative, multilingual, secondary database that collects structured data to provide support for Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, the other wikis of the Wikimedia movement, and to anyone in the world. Wikidata aims to create a free knowledge base about the world that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike.

This workshop will be a general orientation workshop; the following will be discussed:

• Introduction to Wikidata and its importance
• Wikidata items
• Wikidata labels, descriptions
• Property and statement
• Complete structure of a Wikidata item
• Wikidata references
• Using Wikidata in Wikipedia, using statement, property
• Wikidata gadgets
• A couple of Wikimedia labs tools