Wikibase

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For the wiki engine software that originally powered WikiWikiWeb, see: Wiki Base.
This Wikibase article is
referring to a site which seems
not to be, or include, a wiki.
However, it still refers to, or is
pertinent to the subject of wikis.

Wikibase is a collection of software applications and libraries for creating, managing and sharing data, and specifically structured data. In essence, all information entered onto Wikibase is 'machine-readable', meaning that it is effectively database of information which can be accessed universally, and crucially, is open data. A MediaWiki extension, created and hosted by Wikimedia Deutschland started in 2012, Wikibase is an open source project.[1] Wikibase software was developed for, and is used by Wikimedia Wikidata. Other wiki sites and projects using Wikibase include Europeana - Eagle Project, FactGrid, Rhizome ArtBase, DroidWiki, and Uncyclomedia UnData.

Non-wiki projects using Wikibase include the Ger­man Na­tion­al Li­brary (de: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek),[1] Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade,[2] TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology and University Library (de: TIB – Leibniz-Informationszentrum Technik und Naturwissenschaften und Universitätsbibliothek),[3] Black Bibliography Project[4]

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See also
References
  1. ↑ Lydia Pintscher, Lea Voget, Melanie Koeppen, Elena Aleynikova (August 2019); Strategy for the Wikibase Ecosystem (PDF); Upload.Wikimedia.org; accessed 20 January 2022.
External links
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Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (WMF), founded 20 June 2003, is the wiki company and non-profit charitable organization[5] responsible for a very large number (over 900 in total) of very active collaborative user-generated wiki sites, which are grouped together by primary subject and known as a 'project'; as well as the wiki engine software initially developed by themselves, known as MediaWiki. The Wikimedia Foundations' major wiki projects started with Wikipedia (encyclopedia), and subsequently expanded to include Wiktionary (dictionary and thesaurus), Wikiquote (quotations), Wikibooks (open content textbooks), Wikisource (free content primary-source and secondary-source texts), Wikinews (news source), Wikiversity (open learning community), Wikispecies (free species directory), and many others as listed below. Most of these 'projects' have separate wiki site versions written in many different languages. There is also the Wikimedia Commons (shared multilingual repository for documents, images, videos, and other media and text files), and the Wikimedia Meta-Wiki (multilingual coordination of issues common to all Wikimedia projects). The Wikimedia Foundations' global reach is nurtured in its Incubator, where all new language versions for all projects are initiated and developed before being launched as a new separate wiki site. The Foundations' most recent major multi-language wiki project, Wikivoyage (a 'travelpedia'), was inducted to WMF in late 2012 (having being independently established in 2006). Also launched in 2012 was Wikidata (a major multilingual central space knowledge base for structured data used on all WMF projects). The newest WMF project is Wikifunctions, launched in mid 2023, is a library of code functions in many different programming languages.

Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is a member of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). Furthermore, the Wikimedia Foundation is a United States 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, granted April 2005, and headquartered at 1 Montgomery Street, Suite 1600, San Francisco County, State of California 94104, United States of America.[6]

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