Wikidata

Wikidata is a free knowledge database project hosted by Wikimedia and edited by volunteers.

Quotes

 * State of Wikidata - giving more people more access to more knowledge one edit at a time
 * Lydia Pintscher, Wikimania 2015 presentation


 * To explain and motivate [Wikidata], we have often asked the simple question: "What are the world's largest cities with a female mayor?" … [A]n answer can now, finally, be given.
 * Markus Krötzsch, World's largest cities with a female mayor :-), Wikidata mailing list, April 2015


 * [It’s] a backbone of the web of data,If you are interested in data, it is better than search. It would be oversimplifying Wikidata to call it search. [There] you are matching the string, Wikidata’s web of knowledge is far more powerful than string matching
 * Kat Thornton, Yale University Library "The promise of Wikidata" (10 February 2021)


 * Until Wikidata can give me a list of all movies shot in the 60s in Spain, in which a black female horse is stolen by a left-handed actor playing a Portuguese orphan, directed by a colorblind German who liked sailing, and written by a dog-owning women [sic] from Helsinki, we have more work to do.
 * User:Tobias1984, Wikidata project chat, December 2013