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Wikidata
Open, multilingual knowledge base; bibliographic coverage via WikiCite, fully downloadable, CC0.
How it connects
Who is behind it
- Wikidata funded by Allen Institute for AI.
- Wikidata funded by Google. One of three donors (with the Allen Institute for AI and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation) that funded Wikidata's creation.
Connects to
- Wikidata interoperates with OpenAlex. Cross-referenced via WikiCite; OpenAlex reconciles entities against Wikidata QIDs.
Links
Details
Description
The Wikimedia Foundation hosts Wikidata's infrastructure, and Wikimedia Deutschland leads its day-to-day development. Its structured data is published under CC0, and its bibliographic coverage comes through WikiCite.
Attributes
| url | https://www.wikidata.org |
|---|---|
| identifiers | wikidata: Q2013, spdx: GPL-2.0-or-later |
| status | active |
| governance | Nonprofit |
| outputLicence | open |
| codebase | open-source |
| note | Hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation (US nonprofit, which hosts its infrastructure); day-to-day development is led by Wikimedia Deutschland (DE nonprofit). |
| type | Index |
| indexKind | registry |
| selectivity | inclusive |
| inclusionCriteria | opaque |
| bulkDownload | full |
| coverageObjects | article, dataset, organization, person |
| Tags | function: indexing, openness: open content, openness: bulk downloadable |
Sources
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Introduction(opens in a new tab) (accessed 2026-11-12): Structured data published under the Creative Commons CC0 licence.
- https://wikimediafoundation.org/(opens in a new tab) (accessed 2026-09-04): Wikimedia Foundation, host of Wikidata's infrastructure.
- https://www.wikimedia.de/(opens in a new tab) (accessed 2026-09-04): Wikimedia Deutschland, leads day-to-day Wikidata development.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikidata(opens in a new tab) (accessed 2026-09-04)
Last reviewed: 2026-11-12
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