Wikidata

Wikidata
Main page of Wikidata
Type of site
Available inmultiple languages
OwnerWikimedia Foundation[1][2]
Created byWikimedia community
URLwww.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page Edit this at Wikidata
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional
Launched29 October 2012; 12 years ago (2012-10-29)[3]

Wikidata is a wiki that is a database, a collection of data on the internet. The information stored on Wikidata can be used by other websites including Wikipedia. Wikidata is designed so that humans and machines can read it. As of March 2019, it contains more than 55 million items and has 21 thousand active users. For example, it links all the different pages here to other wikis by languages.[4]

Wikidata provides support for Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and other wikis of the Wikimedia movement. Anyone can use it.

References

  1. ↑ Error: Unable to display the reference properly. See the documentation for details.
  2. ↑ Error: Unable to display the reference properly. See the documentation for details.
  3. ↑ "Wikidata's tenth anniversary has been celebrated in Tamale, Ghana, by the Dagbani Wikimedians User Group and two of its sister communities". 18 November 2022. Retrieved 4 October 2024. Wikidata went live on October 29, 2012
  4. ↑ "Statistics". Wikidata. Wikimedia Foundation. September 5, 2016. Retrieved September 5, 2016.