Wikidata is a collaboratively edited multilingual knowledge graph hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.
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10 Facts About Wikidata
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Wikidata is a document-oriented database, focused on items, which represent any kind of topic, concept, or object.
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Similarly, Wikidata's lexemes are items with a structure that makes them more suitable to store lexicographical data.
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Any item or lexeme on Wikidata can be validated against an Entity Schema, and this makes it an important tool for quality assurance.
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Wikidata was launched on 29 October 2012 and was the first new project of the Wikimedia Foundation since 2006.
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Ability for the various language editions of Wikipedia to access data from Wikidata was rolled out progressively between 27 March and 25 April 2013.
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On 16 September 2015, Wikidata began allowing so-called arbitrary access, or access from a given article of a Wikipedia to the statements on Wikidata items not directly connected to it.
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In November 2014, Wikidata received the Open Data Publisher Award from the Open Data Institute "for sheer scale, and built-in openness".
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Wikidata's structured dataset has been used by virtual assistants such as Apple's Siri and Amazon Alexa.
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