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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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Within Vinony's link graph, Wikidata is referenced by 510,096 other articles, and connects out to Wikimedia Foundation, Google and Wikimedia movement.

It is catalogued under topics including Community websites, Creative Commons-licensed websites and Internet properties established in 2012.

Its subject is documented across 131 Wikipedia language editions.

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

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Wikidata facts

Named after: data
Founded by: Wikimedia Foundation
Owned by: Wikimedia Foundation
Main subject: linked open data
Creator: Wikimedia Deutschland
Developer: Wikimedia Foundation
Game engine: MediaWiki
Official website: wikidata.org
Image: Wikidata-Homepage 20220422 21 18 54.png
Motto: מאגר הידע החינמי שכל אחד יכול לערוך
Significant event: presentation

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DuckDuckGo bang: wdt
P11012: Ali Mamlouk
issue tracker URL: bugzilla.wikimedia.org
website account on: identi.ca
topic's main category: Category:Wikidata
inception: 2012-10-29
Commons category: Wikidata
Commons gallery: Commons:Wikidata
Stack Exchange tag: opendata.stackexchange.com/tags/wikidata
IRC channel URL: irc://irc.libera.chat/wikidata
topic has template: Template:Ill-WD
number of registered users/contributors: 6179033
language of work or name: multiple languages
hashtag: Wikidata
Alexa rank: 7136
search formatter URL: www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=$1
native label: ウィキデータ
SPARQL endpoint URL: query.wikidata.org/sparql
sponsor: Google
API endpoint URL: www.wikidata.org/w/rest.php
short name: ВЗ
terms of service URL: foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use
IM channel URL: chat.wmcloud.org/wikimedia/channels/wikidata
social media followers: 3058
IPA transcription: ˌwɪ.ki.ˈdeɪ.tə
funder: Wikimedia Deutschland
described at URL: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page
service status information URL: www.wikimediastatus.net
exact match: wikis.world/tags/Wikidata
FAQ URL: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:FAQ
P8168: Jean-Marie-Bernard Clément
official forum URL: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat
Similarweb ranking: 11159
date of official opening: 2012-10-29
web feed URL: www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?hidecategorization=1&urlversion=2&days=30&limit=50&action=feedrecentchanges&feedformat=atom
login URL: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:UserLogin
registration page URL: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:CreateAccount
P11914: Pluto
number of triples: 15019738576
random page URL: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Random/Lexeme
relates to sustainable development goal, target or indicator: Sustainable Development Goal 16
user manual URL: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Introduction
privacy policy URL: foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy:Privacy_policy
Digital Public Good ID: GID0092714
writing system: Latin script

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Encyclopedic overview

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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Categories

Community websites Creative Commons-licensed websites Internet properties established in 2012 Knowledge graphs Lexical databases Online databases Open data Wikidata Wikimedia projects