#Wikidata - surge of new items

Lately there has been a surge of new items coming into Wikidata. They must be quite good when you consider the number of statements. The items with no statements are mainly part of the original load, the Wikipedia articles, and their number is slowly but surely decreasing (1.35% the last month).

With more items in Wikidata, there is more data to support, to edit. As it is, limits are put on the amount of edits. This can be appreciated because of the current performance problems but it is obvious that as this upward trend continues, more people and more data will come to Wikidata to edit as well as to query.

There is plenty of data waiting in the wings to be added. The big challenge is promoting the data that is of use and will enable more collaboration both with people and with organisations.
Thanks,
      GerardM