Wikidata

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    Wikidata (.org) is a 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.

    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

    Main entry point of any Wikidata item is a JSON dictionary, that has this form:

    {“labels”: by-language dictionary

    “descriptions”: by-language dictionary

    “aliases”: by-language dictionary

    “claims”: list of property and values

    “sitelinks”: by-language dictionary}

    Useful information

    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