Fontanefans Schnipsel: Wikidata

Donnerstag, 29. Oktober 2020

"On 29 October 2012, the wiki was released under wikidata.org for the first time.

We started with the maintenance of the links between the different

language versions of the Wikimedia projects.

Previously, it had been quite time-consuming to maintain

them manually for each article and language version, whereas now,

they are all managed centrally at Wikidata. [...]

A major milestone from the point of view of the development teams

was certainly to release the wiki after many months of laying the

foundations with their work. Important steps were also when editors

and bots began to fill Wikidata with concepts from Wikipedia and when

these data were then used in other Wikimedia projects.

This was followed by diversification to include other types of data, supported

by media data on Wikimedia Commons and lexicographical data on Wikidata.

These data enabled us to compile a machine-readable, multilingual dictionary. [...]"