Wikidata

Wikidata
Logo of Wikidata, a bar code with red, green, and blue stripes
Screenshot
Main page of Wikidata in April 2021
Type of site
Available inMultiple languages
OwnerWikimedia Foundation
EditorWikimedia community
URLwikidata.org Edit this at Wikidata
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional
Launched29 October 2012 (2012-10-29)[1]

Wikidata is a collaboratively edited multilingual knowledge graph hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.[2] It is a common source of open data that Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia,[3][4] and anyone else, is able to use under the CC0 public domain license. Wikidata is a wiki powered by the software MediaWiki, including its extension for semi-structured data, the Wikibase. As of early 2023, Wikidata had 1.54 billion item statements (semantic triple).[5]

  1. ^ "The Wikidata revolution is here: enabling structured data on Wikipedia". 25 April 2013. Retrieved 12 June 2022. Since Wikidata.org went live on 30 October 2012,
  2. ^ Chalabi, Mona (26 April 2013). "Welcome to Wikidata! Now what?". Archived from the original on 2 October 2021. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Wikidata Main Page archive was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Data Revolution for Wikipedia". Wikimedia Deutschland. 30 March 2012. Archived from the original on 23 October 2012. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
  5. ^ "Grafana". grafana.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 21 March 2024.