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'''[[w:Wikidata|Wikidata]]''' [http://wikidata.org (.org)] is a [[w:knowledge base|knowledge base]], an effort to store and serve structured data to [[Wikimedia]] wikis and to a more limited extent to other parties. Wikidata effort saw the daylight in [[2012]].
#REDIRECT [[Knowledge graphs#Wikidata]]
 
The underlying software is the '''[[Wikibase]]''' which consists of 2 [[Mediawiki]] extensions, the repository extension and the client extension.
 
Wikibase allows [[interwiki]] links to be managed with Wikidata removing much contributor annoyanges, redundancy and error-proneness.
 
Wikidata is obviously a main source of [[reference]] level data once it is technically possible for non-WMF wikis to access the data items.
 
It can be accessed outside of WMF wikis with with
* [[wikidata:Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/queries|Wikidata advice on how to query]] [https://query.wikidata.org/ Wikidata's endpoint] using [[SPARQL]].
* [[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]
* [[wikidata:Wikidata:Database download|Wikidata offers its database for download]]
 
Main entry point of any Wikidata item is a [[w:JSON|JSON]] dictionary, that has this form:
 
<code>{“labels”: by-language dictionary
 
“descriptions”: by-language dictionary
 
“aliases”: by-language dictionary
 
“claims”: list of property and values
 
“sitelinks”: by-language dictionary}</code>
 
== Useful information ==
 
* [[wikidata:Wikidata:Tools/External_tools|Wikidata's list of external tools that make use of Wikidata's knowledge]]
 
'''More info'''
* [[m:Wikidata|Metawiki on Wikidata]]
* [[w:Wikipedia:Wikidata|Wikipedia advice on Wikidata issues]]
 
== 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
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