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Wikidata
Wikidata logo
Main page of Wikidata
Available inMultilingual
OwnerWikimedia Foundation
Created byWikimedia community
URLwww.wikidata.org
CommercialNo

Wikidata is a project to provide a collaboratively edited database to support Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia. Wikidata was launched in October 30, 2012.[1][2] The project is being started by Wikimedia Deutschland and is intended to provide a common source of certain data types, for example, birth dates, a class of validated data, which can be used by Wikimedia projects operating somewhat similar to the way Wikimedia Commons works for media files.[2][3] It became the first new project of the Wikimedia Foundation since 2006.[4]

The creation of the project was funded by donations from the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and Google, Inc., totaling €1.3 million.[5][6]

Impact on Wikipedia

Wikidata works on 3 major things:

  1. Centralising language links
  2. Providing a central place for infobox data for all Wikipedias
  3. Creating and updating list articles based on data in Wikidata

See also

References

  1. ^ Pintscher, Lydia (October 30, 2012). "wikidata.org is live (with some caveats)". wikidata-l (Mailing list). Retrieved November 3, 2012. {{cite mailing list}}: Unknown parameter |mailinglist= ignored (|mailing-list= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ a b Wikidata (Template:WebCite)
  3. ^ "Data Revolution for Wikipedia". Wikimedia Deutschland. March 30, 2012. Archived from the original on September 11, 2012. Retrieved September 11, 2012. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  4. ^ Roth, Matthew (March 30, 2012). "The Wikipedia data revolution". Wikimedia Foundation. Archived from the original on September 11, 2012. Retrieved September 11, 2012. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  5. ^ Dickinson, Boonsri (March 30, 2012). "Paul Allen Invests In A Massive Project To Make Wikipedia Better". Business Insider. Archived from the original on September 11, 2012. Retrieved September 11, 2012. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  6. ^ Perez, Sarah (March 30, 2012). "Wikipedia's Next Big Thing: Wikidata, A Machine-Readable, User-Editable Database Funded By Google, Paul Allen And Others". TechCrunch. Archived from the original on September 11, 2012. Retrieved September 11, 2012. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)


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