Presentation of Wikidata at the Wikidata Day 15 (2016) in New York City

1. Wikidata
the free knowledge base
Adam Shorland (Addshore)
Lucie-Aimée Kaffee (Frimelle)

2. What is Wikidata?
● Free knowledge base by the Wikimedia movement
● Started ~ 3 years ago
● Structured data
● Linked data
● Persistent identifieers
● Multiple languages
● People, places, events, and more
● Powered by Wikibase (open source Mediawiki extension)
● Licenced under CC-0

3. Data Data Types
Data is primarily contained in Statements.
Statement values can be made of the
following data types
● Commons Media
● Geo Coordinate
● Monolingual Text
● Quantity
● String
● Time
● URL
● Item
● Property

5. New York City
Q60
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60

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9. How is Wikipedia
using Wikidata?

15. How about outside Wikipedia?

18. https://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?q=Q60

20. http://histropedia.com/timeline/vk5ttpg9bg0t/Moby-songs

22. http://askplatyp.us/?lang=en&q=What+is+the+population+of+new+york+city

23. http://simia.net/wikidatabrowse/#Q60

24. Questions
https://www.wikidata.org
#wikidata on Freenode
wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org
www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project chat