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- 2019-03-08: The sixty-two millionth item, about the ciliate species Dysteria derouxi, is created.
- 2019-01-25: The sixty-one millionth item, about the Brazilian entrepreneur and gambler, Ângelo Maria Longa, is created.
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- 2018-12-14: Lexeme L40000, about the Swedish adjective "tyskfödd", 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.
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"What's in a name?" asked Shakespeare's Juliet.
The answer: a lot of rich data in need of structure and new properties. But thanks to growing user contributions and the work of a new WikiProject, Wikidata is getting better at supporting name-related data—and can tell you that Juliet also goes by Julika, and Giulia, and Hülya, and Liana, and Uljana...
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