Wikidata showcases
Wikipedia
Wikipedia
What is it? Why is it cool?
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Wikipedia is the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet, and is ranked the fifth-most popular website. It is available in almost 300 languages.
How does it use Wikidata?
Support for Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia is one of the main reasons why Wikidata was created as a central repository of structured data. Wikidata content is used for interwiki links, infoboxes and lists.
Histropedia
Histropedia
What is it? Why is it cool?
Histropedia is a website that enables you to build timelines. These can for example be used in a classroom to teach about a certain era in history or by a GLAM institution to show highlights in the life of one of the artists in their exhibition.
How does it use Wikidata?
Histropedia uses Wikidata’s data to build timelines. You can generate timelines based on a query to Wikidata.
WikiGenomes
WikiGenomes
What is it? Why is it cool?
WikiGenomes is a freely open, editable, and centralized model organism database�for the biological research community.
How does it use Wikidata?
WikiGenomes empowers community curation of genomic and biomedical knowledge through a domain-specific application built on top of Wikidata, bringing curated knowledge to the public domain. Apart from textual information on genomic data it also offers visualizations.
YLE
YLE
What is it? Why is it cool?
The Finnish public broadcasting company, Yle, has since April 1st 2016 tagged online news and feature articles with concepts from Wikidata.
How does it use Wikidata?
Yle uses Wikidata identifiers to unambiguously tag and classify content in three languages (Finnish, Swedish, and English). For Drupal7 sites widely used within Yle they developed an own module, YILD, which can be used for tagging towards any external source.
Monumental
Monumental
What is it? Why is it cool?
Monumental is a web application which displays information about cultural heritage monuments based on data gathered on Wikidata, Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. It was created as a part of the Connected Open Heritage project by Wikimedia Sweden and Wiki Loves Monuments.
How does it use Wikidata?�
Monumental lets you enter the name of a monument in the search box (for example, 'Empire State Building') to learn more or explore heritage by entering a geographic region (for example, 'Berlin'). Wikidata is one of its main data sources.
Scholia
Scholia
What is it? Why is it cool?
Scholia is a tool for showing scientific bibliographic information through Wikidata.
It creates on-the-fly scholarly profiles for researchers, organizations, journals, publishers, individual scholarly works, and for research topics.
How does it use Wikidata?
To collect the data, Scholia queries the
SPARQL-based Wikidata Query Service. Among several display formats available in Scholia are lists of publications for individual researchers and
organizations, publications per year, employment timelines, as well as co-author and topic networks and citation graphs.
Eurowings
Eurowings
What is it? Why is it cool?
Eurowings GmbH is a German airline headquartered in Düsseldorf and a subsidiary of the Lufthansa Group. Their in-flight entertainment system enriches map data with Wikidata information.
How does it use Wikidata?
Eurowings’ in-flight entertainment system displays maps “powered by the magic of Wikidata”.
Quora
Quora
What is it? Why is it cool?
Quora is a question-and-answer site where questions are asked, answered, edited and organized by its community of users.
How does it use Wikidata?
Quora is officially using and contributing to Wikidata. They have completed a mapping of Quora topics to Wikidata and links to Quora topics are available through the Wikidata entities and also from Quora topic pages to Wikidata entities.
Inventaire
Inventaire
What is it? Why is it cool?
Inventaire.io lets you keep an inventory of your books and make them available for lending to friends and the larger community.
How does it use Wikidata?
Wikidata is used for resource mapping. Wikidata identifiers are combined with other data sources to describe books.
Everything’s connected
Everything’s connected
What is it? Why is it cool?
A tool to create puzzle games based on Wikidata’s 24 million entities and the relationships between them.
How does it use Wikidata?�
Everything is connected is a knowledge game — a game relying on knowledge about the world in order to be solved. The data is based on Wikidata.
Guessr
Guessr
What is it? Why is it cool?
Inspired by GeoGuessr, Guessr is a fun game that shows randomized images and lets you guess the location of the object depicted.
How does it use Wikidata?
Images are taken from pictures linked in Wikidata items. You can create your own game by giving a Wikidata identifier, such as Q204832 for a game about rollercoasters.
WikiShootMe
WikiShootMe
What is it? Why is it cool?
Traveling cool places? Have a camera? Find places nearby that have items on Wikidata but no images yet, and see your pictures beautify an article or two!
How does it use Wikidata?
WikiShootMe is a tool with a map with all the information on items without a picture on it: All of Wikidata, all of Wikipedia, all of Commons. It lets you choose a missing image and upload your picture.
Littar
Littar
What is it? Why is it cool?
Littar is a system for visualizing places mentioned in individual literary works.
This enables spatial studies in literature science, e.g. to find out if there are literary biases in the concentration of narrative locations.
How does it use Wikidata?
Littar takes data of literary works from Wikidata, using the “narrative location” property on items that have a geographical coordinate.
AgreeList
AgreeList
What is it? Why is it cool?
AgreeList aims to fight misinformation and improve the quality of debates by showing what people think and why, on both sides of key issues. The heart of Agreelist are controversial topics, where influencers do not agree on what the right answer is.
How does it use Wikidata?
Agreelist is integrated with Wikidata to get influencers' occupations and alma mater.
Open Food Facts
Open Food Facts
How does it use Wikidata?
Connecting to different databases about nutritional information
Historic.place
Historic.place
How does it use Wikidata?
Getting data about historical places
lib.reviews
lib.review
What is it? Why is it cool?
A website for publishing reviews of products, services and more
How does it use Wikidata?
Wikidata is used as the source of concepts to review as well as links to additional information
Gender Gap
Gender Gap
What is it? Why is it cool?
A tool to visualize the the coverage of male vs. female people across different times, occupations and more across the Wikimedia projects
How does it use Wikidata?
It uses Wikidata for information about people incl. sex/gender, date of birth, nationality, occupation as well as which Wikimedia projects have content about them.
Siri
Siri
What is it? Why is it cool?
Apple’s digital personal assistant that answers all your common knowledge questions
How does it use Wikidata?
As a source of common knowledge to generate answers to questions
Chlambase
Chlambase
What is it? Why is it cool?
An open, editable, and centralized model organism database
for the chlamydial research community.
How does it use Wikidata?
Like Wikigenomes it uses Wikidata as its primary source of its data.
Repology
Repology
What is it? Why is it cool?
It’s a hub for information about software packages in various package repositories.
How does it use Wikidata?
It uses Wikidata to get version information as well as identifiers for various package managers.
BookBrainz
BookBrainz
How does it use Wikidata?
It gets information about authors and books incl. Links to Wikipedia articles to show excerpts of them.
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