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
URLwww.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page Edit this at Wikidata
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional
Launched29 October 2012; 12 years ago (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 mid-2024, Wikidata had 1.57 billion item statements (semantic triple).[5]

  1. ^ "Wikidata's tenth anniversary has been celebrated in Tamale, Ghana, by the Dagbani Wikimedians User Group and two of its sister communities". 18 November 2022. Retrieved 4 October 2024. Wikidata went live on October 29, 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.