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Wikidata

Summary

Wikidata is a semantic wiki[1]. Wikidata draws 2,158 Wikipedia views per month (semantic_wiki category, ranking #1 of 1).[2]

Key Facts

  • Wikidata authored Wikidata editors[3].
  • Wikidata authored Wikimedia community[4].
  • Wikidata is the creator of Wikidata editors[5].
  • Wikidata is the creator of Wikimedia Deutschland[6].
  • Wikidata received the Open Data Award[7].
  • Wikidata received the Open Publishing Awards[8].
  • Wikidata's instance of is recorded as semantic wiki[9].
  • Wikidata's instance of is recorded as wiki with script conversion[10].
  • Wikidata's instance of is recorded as MediaWiki wiki[11].
  • Wikidata's instance of is recorded as knowledge base[12].
  • Wikidata's instance of is recorded as online database[13].
  • Wikidata's instance of is recorded as knowledge graph[14].
  • Wikidata's instance of is recorded as crowdsourced project[15].
  • Wikidata's instance of is recorded as self-depicting entity[16].
  • Wikidata's instance of is recorded as open content[17].
  • Wikidata's instance of is recorded as sociotope[18].
  • Wikidata's instance of is recorded as Wikimedia content project[19].
  • Wikidata's instance of is recorded as Wikibase instance[20].
  • Wikidata's instance of is recorded as Wikimedia multilingual project[21].
  • Wikidata's founder is recorded as Q18618629[22].
  • Wikidata's founder is recorded as Markus Krötzsch[23].
  • Wikidata's founder is recorded as Wikimedia Foundation[24].
  • Wikidata is owned by Wikimedia Foundation[25].
  • Wikidata is operated by Wikimedia Foundation[26].
  • Wikidata is operated by Wikimedia Site Reliability Engineering[27].

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Authorship and Creation

Authored works include Wikidata editors[3] and Wikimedia community[4], a community[28], founded in 2001[29]. Created works include Wikidata editors[5] and Wikimedia Deutschland[6], a charitable corporation[30], in Germany[31], founded in 2004[32], headquartered in Tempelhofer Ufer 23–24[33].

Publication

Wikidata's language of work or name is recorded as multiple languages[34]. Part of include Semantic Web[35], an information system[36]; Linked Open Data cloud diagram[37], a diagram[38]; Network of Terms[39]; and Wikibase Ecosystem[40].

Reception

Awards received include Open Data Award[7], an award[41] and Open Publishing Awards[8], an award[42], founded in 2019[43].

Cultural Impact

Things named for Wikidata include OWL Places[44], a free software[45]; OSM Wikidata Link Map[46], a free software[47]; and UnData[48], a database[49], founded in 2019[50].

Why It Matters

Wikidata draws 2,158 Wikipedia views per month (semantic_wiki category, ranking #1 of 1).[2] Wikidata has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[51] Wikidata is known by 17 alternative names across languages and contexts.[52]

Entities named for Wikidata include OWL Places[44], a free software[45]; OSM Wikidata Link Map[46], a free software[47]; and UnData[48], a database[49], founded in 2019[50].

FAQs

What awards did Wikidata receive?

Honors received include Open Data Award[7] and Open Publishing Awards[8].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [9] . wikidata.org.
  2. [10] . wikidata.org.
  3. [11] . wikidata.org.
  4. [12] . stars.library.ucf.edu. stars.library.ucf.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [13] . wikidata.org.
  6. [14] . iccl.inf.tu-dresden.de. iccl.inf.tu-dresden.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [15] . Wikidata as a knowledge graph for the life sciences. wikidata.org.
  8. [16] . wikidata.org.
  9. [17] . wikidata.org.
  10. [18] . wikidata.org.
  11. [19] . wikidata.org.
  12. [20] . wikidata.org.
  13. [21] . wikidata.org.
  14. [3] . wikidata.org.
  15. [4] . wikidata.org.
  16. [22] . Wikimedia Germany Blog. Retrieved . blog.wikimedia.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [23] . Wikimedia Germany Blog. Retrieved . blog.wikimedia.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [24] . wikidata.org.
  19. [25] . digitalpublicgoods.net. Retrieved . digitalpublicgoods.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [26] . From Freebase to Wikidata: The Great Migration. wikidata.org.
  21. [27] . wikidata.org.
  22. [7] . theodi.org. Retrieved . theodi.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [8] . openpublishingawards.org. openpublishingawards.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [5] . wikidata.org.
  25. [6] . wikidata.org.
  26. [35] . wikidata.org.
  27. [37] . lod-cloud.net. Retrieved . lod-cloud.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  28. [39] . termennetwerk.netwerkdigitaalerfgoed.nl. termennetwerk.netwerkdigitaalerfgoed.nl. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  29. [40] . wikidata.org.
  30. [34] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [44] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [46] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [48] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [41] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [42] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [43] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  9. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  10. [36] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  11. [38] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  12. [45] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  13. [47] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  14. [49] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  15. [50] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [51] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [52] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 25d ago · OboeBlanket · 2026-06-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Date of official opening +2012-10-29T00:00:00Z
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ [[Property:P1619]]: 29 October 2012"
  2. 4w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-06-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of semantic wiki, wiki with script conversion, MediaWiki wiki +10
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-and-other-short:0||kaa */ Cleanup: remove alias=label; fix invalid 'stated in' in reference; remove redundant reference URL (P854) ([[User:Difool/WikidataCleanup]])"
  3. 5w ago · Waldyrious · 2026-05-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of semantic wiki, wiki with script conversion, MediaWiki wiki +10
    Local thumb
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ [[Property:P31]]: [[Q15633582]]"
  4. 9w ago · GeertivpBot bot · 2026-05-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception
    Copyright license Creative Commons CC0 License, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
    Alexa rank {'amount': '+12325'}, {'amount': '+12382'}, {'amount': '+9525'} +5
    Replaces WikiProject Persondata, interwiki link
    + 61 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||mnw, ba, en, udm */ #pwb Copy label"
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