Wikidata

Wikidata (www.wikidata.org) aims tae creat a free knowledge base aboot the warld that can be reid an editit bi humans an machines alik. It will provide data in aw the leids o the Wikimedie projects an allae for the central access tae data in a similar vein as Wikimedie Commons daes for multimedia files. Wikidata is a new Wikimedie hostit an maintained project.

The ineetial deveelopment o the waurk is fundit wi a generous donation bi the Allen Institute for Airtificial Intelligence [ai]², the Gordon n Betty Moore Fundation, n Google, Inc.

Further information

• Wikidata.org – this is the production wabsteid.
• Development version demo steid – lats ye gie the latest development version o the code shot.
• Wikidata test steid
• Introduction – affers ae non-techneecal introduction tae the goals o the Wikidata waurk proposal.
• ASS – answers some o the maist affen speired speirins.
• Development – affers an owerluik o the nou development wairk.
• Contreebute – shaws hou ye can help.
• Glossary – is ae leet o terms uised aroond Wikidata n thair explanation.

Stayin up-tae-date

• Weeklie updates
• Mailin leet
• #wikidata^connect
• Twitter / identi.ca / Facebook / Google+ / Quora
• On-wiki newsletter (airchive)
• Events
• Press

Impact on Wikipedie

We are wirkin on three major things:

1. Centralizing leid airts
2. Providin a central place for infobox data for aw Wikipedies
3. Creatin an updatin leet airticles based on data in Wikidata

Status

We are postin regular summaries o the activities aroond Wikidata on Status updates.

Size

Wikidata is currently the largest Wikimedia project, with over 90 million content pages.