free multilingual online knowledge graph
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Wikidata is a collaboratively edited multilingual knowledge graph hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. It is a source of open data released under the Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication. It is for the use of both Wikimedia and external projects. Launched in October 2012, it is developed mainly by Wikimedia Deutschland and supplies the interlanguage links and some of the infobox data used by Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. Wikidata is a wiki powered by the software MediaWiki, including its extension for semi-structured data, the Wikibase. As of early 2025, Wikidata had 1.65 billion item statements. As of October 2026, Wikidata held more than 123 million data entities, such as items, properties and lexemes.
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VIAF: 1888155769085727880005
Google: /m/0j9kvph
Discord server: 221049808784326656
Wikidata: Q2013
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