Wikibase

Not to be confused with WikiBase, the software engine of WikiWikiWeb.
Wikibase
Developer(s)Wikimedia Deutschland
Initial release2012[1][2]
Repositorygerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase
TypeMediaWiki extension
LicenseGPL-2.0-or-later
Websitewikiba.se Edit this at Wikidata

Wikibase is a set of MediaWiki extensions for working with versioned semi-structured data in a central repository. It is based upon JSON instead of the unstructured data of wikitext normally used in MediaWiki. Its primary components are the Wikibase Repository, an extension for storing and managing data, and the Wikibase Client which allows for the retrieval and embedding of structured data from a Wikibase repository. It was developed for and is used by Wikidata,[3] by Wikimedia Deutschland.

The data model for Wikibase links consists of "entities" which include individual "items", labels or identifiers to describe them (potentially in multiple languages), and semantic statements that attribute "properties" to the item. These properties may either be other items within the database, or textual information.[4]

Wikibase has a JavaScript-based user interface, and provides exports of all or subsets of data in many formats. Projects using it include Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons,[5] Europeana's Eagle Project, Lingua Libre,[6] FactGrid, and the OpenStreetMap wiki.[7]

Wikibase explainer video
  1. ^ Strategy for the Wikibase Ecosystem Archived 2019-09-18 at the Wayback Machine (August 2019)
  2. ^ "Wikibase Roadmap 2020". Archived from the original on 2022-10-18. Retrieved 2021-01-14.
  3. ^ Vrandecic, D. (2013). "The Rise of Wikidata". IEEE Intelligent Systems. 28 (4): 90–95. doi:10.1109/MIS.2013.119. ISSN 1541-1672. S2CID 8073151.
  4. ^ Bergamin, Giovanni; Bacchi, Cristian (2018-09-15). "New ways of creating and sharing bibliographic information: an experiment of using the Wikibase Data Model for UNIMARC data". JLIS.it. 9 (3): 35–74. doi:10.4403/jlis.it-12458. ISSN 2038-1026. Archived from the original on 2021-10-29. Retrieved 2018-10-21.
  5. ^ "Version - SpecialPage". Wikimedia Commons. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
  6. ^ "Who uses Wikibase?". Wikibase. Archived from the original on 2021-06-12.
  7. ^ "Data items". OpenStreetMap Wiki. Archived from the original on 2021-10-29. Retrieved 2019-05-12.