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Wikidata (.org) is an effort to store and serve structured data to Wikimedia wikis and to a more limited extent to other parties. Wikidata was started in 2012. The software developed is known as the Wikibase extension.

Wikibase allows interwiki links to be managed with Wikidata removing much contributor annoyanges, redundancy and error-proneness.

Obviously a main source of reference level data.

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mw:Wikidata Toolkit is a way for Java programs to access data in the Wikidata repository.

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-'''Wikidata''' [http://wikidata.org (.org)] is a project by WikiMedia Foundation initiated in the start of [[2012]] to develop a data repository called wikidata.org and it's underlying [[mw:Extension:Wikibase| Wikibase extension]].
+'''Wikidata''' [http://wikidata.org (.org)] is an effort to store and serve structured data to [[Wikimedia]] wikis and to a more limited extent to other parties. Wikidata was started in [[2012]]. The software developed is known as the [[Wikibase]] extension.
-It aims to provide for data ( such as [[infobox]] data ) a central repository similarly as the [[commons]] does for files.
+Wikibase allows [[interwiki]] links to be managed with Wikidata removing much contributor annoyanges, redundancy and error-proneness.
-One of the aims of the project is to make the data accessible to computers as well as humans.
-Also [[interwiki]] ( inter-language ) links are now hosted with Wikidata removing much redundancy and error-proneness.
 Obviously a main source of [[reference]] level data.

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