This document discusses Wikimedia projects including Wikis, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata. It provides an overview of Wikidata, describing it as a free knowledge base that structures data about "things" to provide a shared infrastructure for other Wikimedia projects and beyond. The document highlights examples of how Wikidata is used to enrich information by linking and aggregating data across languages and collections.
3. Wikis - Editable by anyone, collaborative
Freely licensed - can be re-used by anyone
Worldwide
Multilingual
Volunteer-driven
No ads - entirely funded by donations
Wikimania 2014 Group Photo, by Ralf Roletschek, CC BY-SA 3.0 AT, via Wikimedia Commons
4. Wikimania 2014 Group Photo, by Ralf Roletschek, CC BY-SA 3.0 AT, via Wikimedia Commons
Imagine a world in which every single human being
can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.
That's our commitment.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Vision
11. • Centralizes interwiki links
• Centralizes data in
infoboxes
• Offers an interface for ‘rich
queries’
● Multilingual
● Machine-readable
● Referenced
● All data is CC0 – freely
reusable by everyone
Founded in 2012
Structures the ‘sum of all human knowledge’
27. Wikidata
and
ontologies
● Community focuses on
practicality, easy
queriability, and broad
re-usability
● Great at crosswalking
vocabularies and authority
files
● Not so brilliant at high-level
ontology
● Not many hardcore 'ontology
nerds' in the community
(yet)!