Wikidata

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.

Main page of Wikidata
Website	{{#property:P856}}
Commercial	No
Registration	Optional
Launched	29 October 2012 (2012-10-29)

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

Wikidata Media

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  This diagram shows the most important terms used in Wikidata.
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  A layout of the four main components of a phase-1 Wikidata page: the label, description, aliases, and interlanguage links.

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  Example of a simple statement consisting of one property–value pair

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  A Wikipedia article's list of interlanguage links as they appeared in an edit box (left) and on the article's page (right) prior to Wikidata. Each link in these lists is to an article that requires its own list of interlanguage links to the other articles; this is the information centralized by Wikidata.

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  The "Edit links" link nowadays takes the reader to Wikidata to edit interlanguage and interwiki links.