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* [[SPARQL]] [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/queries Wikidata advice on how to query their endpoint] https://query.wikidata.org/ | * [[SPARQL]] [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/queries Wikidata advice on how to query their endpoint] https://query.wikidata.org/ | ||
* [[mw:Wikidata Toolkit]] is a way for Java programs to access data in the Wikidata repository. | * [[mw:Wikidata Toolkit]] is a way for Java programs to access data in the Wikidata repository. | ||
* [https://rdflib.github.io/sparqlwrapper/ SPARQL Endpoint interface to Python] | |||
Revision as of 15:29, 3 February 2018
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.
It can be accessed outside of WMF wikis with with
- SPARQL Wikidata advice on how to query their endpoint https://query.wikidata.org/
- mw:Wikidata Toolkit is a way for Java programs to access data in the Wikidata repository.
- SPARQL Endpoint interface to Python
More info
See also
- Database for a higher level view of what is going on with the databases
- Semantic MediaWiki is system for inputting and querying semantic data within the MediaWiki and it is implemented as extension(s).
- DBpedia the original structured data harvesting effort for the MediaWiki wikis