Wikidata

Wikidata (.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 Wikibase extension.

It aims to provide for data ( such as infobox data ) a central repository similarly as the commons does for files.

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.

More info

• Metawiki on Wikidata
• Wikipedia article on Wikidata
• Wikipedia advice on Wikidata issues

Useful resources

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

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