Wikidata: a free collaborative knowledgebase

Abstract

This collaboratively edited knowledgebase provides a common source of data for Wikipedia, and everyone else.

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Index Terms

• Applied computing

  • Computers in other domains

    • Digital libraries and archives

• Computer systems organization

  • Architectures

    • Distributed architectures

• Hardware

  • Communication hardware, interfaces and storage

• Information systems

  • Information retrieval

  • Information storage systems

  • Information systems applications

    • Digital libraries and archives

• Networks

• Social and professional topics

  • Professional topics

    • Management of computing and information systems

      • Project and people management

• Software and its engineering

  • Software notations and tools

    • General programming languages

      • Language features

        • Data types and structures

  • Software organization and properties

    • Software system structures

      • Distributed systems organizing principles