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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.

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Key facts

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Wikidata-logo-en.svg
Website.logo_alt
Logo of Wikidata, a bar code with red, green, and blue stripes
Website.collapsible
yes
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Wikidata main page screenshot.png
Website.caption
Main page of Wikidata in April 2021
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No
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Optional
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Multiple languages
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Wikimedia Foundation
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Wikidata

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Wikidata facts

Official website
wikidata.org
Image
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Motto
מאגר הידע החינמי שכל אחד יכול לערוך
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DuckDuckGo bang
wdt
issue tracker URL
bugzilla.wikimedia.org
inception
2012-10-29
Commons category
Wikidata
Commons gallery
Commons:Wikidata
IRC channel URL
irc://irc.libera.chat/wikidata
number of registered users/contributors
6179033
hashtag
Wikidata
Alexa rank
7136
native label
ウィキデータ
SPARQL endpoint URL
query.wikidata.org/sparql
short name
ВЗ
social media followers
3058
IPA transcription
ˌwɪ.ki.ˈdeɪ.tə
service status information URL
www.wikimediastatus.net
Similarweb ranking
11159
date of official opening
2012-10-29
P11914
Pluto
number of triples
15019738576
Digital Public Good ID
GID0092714
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19 sections
Contents
  • 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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