Wikidata
Wikidata is a collaboratively edited multilingual knowledge graph hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. It is a source of open data released under the Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication. It is for the use of both Wikimedia and external projects. Wikidata is a wiki powered by the software MediaWiki, including its extension for semi-structured data, the Wikibase. As of early 2025, Wikidata had 1.65 billion item statements (semantic triples).
AI overview
Wikidata is a free, publicly editable database of facts and information that anyone can contribute to and use, maintained by the Wikimedia Foundation (the organization behind Wikipedia). It matters because it provides a standardized, machine-readable way to store and share structured knowledge that can be used by Wikipedia, other websites, and research projects around the world.
AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.
Key facts
- Website.logo
- Wikidata-logo-en.svg
- Website.logo_alt
- Logo of Wikidata, a bar code with red, green, and blue stripes
- Website.collapsible
- yes
- Website.screenshot
- Wikidata main page screenshot.png
- Website.caption
- Main page of Wikidata in April 2021
- Website.commercial
- No
- Website.registration
- Optional
- Website.language
- Multiple languages
- Website.owner
- Wikimedia Foundation
- Website.name
- Wikidata
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official website
Article
19 sectionsContents
- Concept
- Main parts
- Statements
- Properties
- Lexemes
- Entity schemas
- Content
- Development
- Initial rollout
- Statements and data access
- Query service and other improvements
- Logo
- Reception
- Applications
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Wikidata is a collaboratively edited multilingual knowledge graph hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. It is a source of open data released under the Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication. It is for the use of both Wikimedia and external projects. Wikidata is a wiki powered by the software MediaWiki, including its extension for semi-structured data, the Wikibase. As of early 2025, Wikidata had 1.65 billion item statements (semantic triples).
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