Wikipedia:Wikidata
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 | This page in a nutshell: Wikipedia fetches interwiki links from the Wikidata central database. Wikipedia also fetches some data from Wikidata. |
Wikidata is a Wikimedia project to create an open and collaborative database. It stores relational statements about an entity as well as the interwiki links associated with the pages on the Wikimedia projects that describe that entity. The English Wikipedia uses these interlanguage links stored at Wikidata, and has some limited applications for the statements made in Wikidata.
Access from Wikipedia
From a Wikipedia page, you can go to the link "Wikidata item", using "Tools" in the side pane (in the left), to see and edit it. Also in Tools, there is another link to "page information", where is "Wikidata item ID", that contains the QID (for example: Q171 or "None").
You can go to the corresponding page in Wikimedia sister projects using the links under "In other projects", also in the side pane.
Finally, you can go to other Wikipedia language links of the item, clicking in "Languages" in the side pane. You can use "Edit links" there.
Infoboxes
Wikidata holds information in many languages that can be re-used on Wikipedias, particularly in infoboxes. The choice to use this information is left entirely to the Wikipedia community itself — future changes to the wiki software will only provide an option to retrieve information from Wikidata if desired. (For example, some wiki-text may ask for the atomic number of a chemical element, or the population of a country.) Wikidata supports citations for all data.
Articles and their infobox templates can incorporate facts from the corresponding Wikidata page using {{#property:}} or {{#statements:}}syntax, and many other related templates and modules. Such transclusions are added inline to articles explicitly on a page-by-page or template-by-template basis, either manually or by bots, and are not attached automatically to articles.
Infoboxes that use it
See Category:Templates using data from Wikidata.
See also
- Help:Wikidata
- Wikipedia:Mbabel – article draft generating tool for Wikipedia based on Wikidata
- Wikipedia Signpost Technology report article from 4 February 2013
- Wikipedia:Wikidata/Wikidatans – list of Wikipedians who can assist with Wikidata.
- Wikipedia:Wikidata/2018 State of affairs
- Wikipedia Talk:Wikidata/2017 State of affairs
Wikidata templates and modules
{{Wikidata}},{{WikidataOI}}, and{{#invoke:Wd|function}}{{Wdib}}and{{#invoke:WikidataIB|function}}{{WikidataCheck}}and{{#invoke:WikidataCheck|function}}{{Wikidata entity link}}{{Wikidata property}}- Category:Wikidata templates (74) and Category:Wikidata modules (13)
External links
- Wikidata's main page
- Wikidata:Wikipedia portal at Wikidata
- FAQ at Wikidata
- Introduction at Wikidata
- Wikidata at Meta-Wiki
- #wikidata connect – IRC chat room if you need help
- Lydia Pintscher (13 February 2013). Wikidata live on the English Wikipedia at the Wikimedia DE blog.