{"id":25,"date":"2019-11-16T14:02:10","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T14:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wikidata.wwwnlsrc4.supercp.com\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2021-07-13T12:45:13","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T12:45:13","slug":"introduction-to-wikidata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wdqs-tutorial.toolforge.org\/index.php\/introduction\/introduction-to-wikidata\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to Wikidata"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>What is Wikidata?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Wikidata is Wikimedia\u2019s international project, which aims to be the largest free database, just as Wikipedia has become the world&#8217;s most popular source of knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wikidata is a free and open knowledge base that can be read and edited by both humans and machines.&nbsp;Wikidata acts as central storage for the structured data of its Wikimedia sister projects including Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wiktionary, Wikisource, and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wikidata also provides support to many other sites and services beyond just Wikimedia projects! The content of Wikidata is available under a free license, exported using standard formats, and can be interlinked to other open data sets on the linked data web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Wikidata\/linked data explained<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Wikidata is a central storage repository, consisting mainly of <strong>items<\/strong>. An item is a thing, an entity, a concept. It can be an object, a person, an event, a place, an artwork, but also more abstract concepts such as love or socialism. Items are uniquely identified by a Q followed by a number. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, item Q17738 represents the 1977 film \u201cStar Wars\u201d. Every item also has a <strong>label<\/strong>, which is the main name given to it in a particular language. This enables the basic information required to identify the topic the item covers to be translated without favouring any language. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"942\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/wdqs-tutorial.toolforge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Star-Wars-Episode-IV.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wdqs-tutorial.toolforge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Star-Wars-Episode-IV.png 942w, https:\/\/wdqs-tutorial.toolforge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Star-Wars-Episode-IV-300x148.png 300w, https:\/\/wdqs-tutorial.toolforge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Star-Wars-Episode-IV-768x379.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 942px) 100vw, 942px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Item labels need not be unique. For example, Star Wars (Q462) represents the Star Wars film series and media franchise, and Star Wars (Q54317) represents the 1983 video game.  The&nbsp;<strong>description<\/strong>&nbsp;on a Wikidata entry is a short phrase designed to disambiguate items with the same or similar labels. A&nbsp;description&nbsp;does not need to be unique; multiple items can have the same description, however no two items can have both the same label and the same description. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Wikidata? Wikidata is Wikimedia\u2019s international project, which aims to be the largest free database, just as Wikipedia has become the world&#8217;s most popular source of knowledge. 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