What’s of interest? Building an Internet for Everyone: Wikidata Recognized as a Digital Public Good – Diff
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The Wikimedia Movement contributes every day toward a better internet, one that is free – filled with reliable information that belongs to everyone and benefits everyone.
This is the ideal that the many Wikimedia projects stand for. Earlier this year, in February, Wikipedia was recognized as a digital public good (DPG). Now, Wikidata follows in its footsteps – as the world’s largest open knowledge graph, used globally to build transparency, trust, and digital equity.
Zarah Ziadi (WMDE), Wikidata Heart Logo with hands, CC0 1.0
As probably everyone of the Movement knows, Wikidata isn’t just a traditional database, but a knowledge graph. It connects information like points on a map – creating relationships and meaning: Berlin – capital city – Germany. This makes knowledge not just available, but understood in context.
Wikidata’s data is open, freely accessible, reusable, and machine-readable – both understandable to humans and processable by computers. The knowledge graph currently comprises over 119 million entries, which are maintained and expanded by around 24,000 volunteers worldwide. One important goal is to make the knowledge of underrepresented communities visible – in their languages and from their perspectives.
Built on MediaWiki and extended through Wikibase, Wikidata enables structured, linked data across projects – connecting information from Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wikisource, and beyond.
A Data Backbone for an Open Internet
All content in Wikidata is released under CC0, free of copyright restrictions. Anyone can use, share, and build upon it. Each entry can be backed by reliable sources – scientific literature, official data, or trusted media.
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