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Everything about Wikidata

Collaborative multilingual knowledge graph

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. Launched in October 2012, it is developed mainly by Wikimedia Deutschland and supplies the interlanguage links and some of the infobox data used by Wikipedia and other Wikimedia 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. As of October 2026, Wikidata held more than 123 million data entities, such as items, properties and lexemes. Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: WikidataA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: A systematic review of Wikidata in Digital Humanities projectsInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: Die Wikipedia-StoryThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: WikidataCited 2,747 times
  5. Go sideways: Freebase (dataset)A closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: WikibaseA closely related topic

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