Wikimedia Wikidata: Difference between revisions

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{{Wiki
|-style="font-size:95%; text-align:center"
|URL              = http://www.wikidata.org
|http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Wikidata-logo-en.svg/180px-Wikidata-logo-en.svg.png
|logo              = http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Wikidata-logo-en.svg/180px-Wikidata-logo-en.svg.png
Wikidata logo
|wide logo        = <!--insert 'y' when the logo is too wide AND/OR the title is too long-->
|}
|recentchanges URL = http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges
{{see also|Referata Wikidata}}
|wikinode URL      = No <!--http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/WikiNode - If none, use 'No'-->
'''Wikidata''' is a proposed new {{tag|Wikimedia Foundation}} hosted and maintained project.  Wikidata aims to create a free {{tag|knowledge}} base about the {{tag|earth|world}} that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike.  It will provide {{tag|data}} in all the [[:Category:Wiki Language|languages]] of the [[Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia]] projects, and allow for the central access to data in a similar vein as [[Wikimedia Commons]] does for multimedia files.
|status            = New
|language          = Multilingual
|editmode          = OpenEdit
|engine            = MediaWiki
|license          = MultiLicense
|maintopic        = Wikidata
|backupurl        = <!--backup file URL, found at '/Special:Statistics' on Wikia sites-->
|backupdate        = 2012-MM-DD <!--ISO date of backup URL, if unknown, type 'unknown date'-->
}}{{see also|Referata Wikidata}}
{{Size
|pages      = 17 <!--Necessary. Type the plain number of pages - NO thousands separators.-->
|statistics URL = http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Statistics
|wikiFactor = <!--Preferred. If unknown leave void. See: Category:wikiFactor.-->
|wikiFactor URL = <!--Source of wF (often 'PopularPages' or 'MostVisitedPages') - see Template:Size. If unknown leave void.-->
}}(As of: 27 November 2012)<!--manually add/amend date when stats are verified and/or updated-->
 
 
'''Wikidata''' is a new {{tag|Wikimedia Foundation}} hosted and maintained project, {{tag|FoundedIn2012|founded 2012}}.  Wikidata aims to create a free {{tag|knowledge}} base about the {{tag|earth|world}} that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike.  It will provide {{tag|data}} in all the [[:Category:Wiki Language|languages]] of the [[Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia]] projects, and allow for the central access to data in a similar vein as [[Wikimedia Commons]] does for multimedia files.  Wikimedia Wikidata uses a {{tag|Wiki MultiLicense|dual licensing}} scheme: "All structured data from the main and property namespace is available under the {{tag|Wiki Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC0)|Creative Commons CC0 License}}; text in the other namespaces is available under the {{tag|Wiki Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike|Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License}}".


Wikidata is currently used extensively by [[OmegaWiki]].
Wikidata is currently used extensively by [[OmegaWiki]].