Wikidata

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Open Structured Data by Wikimedia for Everyone

Lydia Pintscher

@nightrose

COSCUP 2013

Who of you has edited Wikipedia before?

Was it easy?

Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.

articles: 23 000 000+

edits: 1 400 000 000+

languages: 286

images: 14 300 000+

videos: 18 000+

audio: 165 000+

But...

low-tech

editor recruiting and retention

coverage and reach

English

French

Italian

Greek

Turkish

Chinese

Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.

Wikidata to the rescue!

But what is Wikidata actually?

• repository of the world's knowledge
• database anyone can read and edit
• multi-lingual
• Free Software

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But let me show you!

Demo wikidata.org

How is Wikidata helping?

• allow a lot of easy micro-contributions
• support smaller languages
• allow easy data entry and editing
• automate some stuff currently done by hand

Demo geocoordinates

What does this mean for the world outside Wikimedia?

• large multi-lingual knowledge base with references
• huge amount of data under an open license
• for free!
• accessible via an API
• edited and maintained by a large community
• you can run your own instance

Demo

Reasonator, Wiri and more

Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.

wikidata.org

@wikidata

#wikimedia-wikidata

wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org

lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de

Appendix: Pages used for demo

http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1867

http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83101

http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q159

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Denny/Wikidata_growth

http://simia.net/treeoflife/

toolserver.org/~magnus/ts2/php/wd_query.php

toolserver.org/~magnus/ts2/geneawiki/

http://fissl.indus.uberspace.de/#1867

tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?q=Q42

http://toolserver.org/~magnus/thetalkpage/