Wikibase Explained

Wikibase
Developer:Wikimedia Deutschland
Released:2012[1] [2]
Genre:MediaWiki extension
License:GPL-2.0-or-later

Wikibase is a set of MediaWiki extensions for working with versioned semi-structured data in a central repository. It is based upon JSON instead of the unstructured data of wikitext normally used in MediaWiki. Its primary components are the Wikibase Repository, an extension for storing and managing data, and the Wikibase Client which allows for the retrieval and embedding of structured data from a Wikibase repository. It was developed for and is used by Wikidata,[3] by Wikimedia Deutschland.

The data model for Wikibase links consists of "entities" which include individual "items", labels or identifiers to describe them (potentially in multiple languages), and semantic statements that attribute "properties" to the item. These properties may either be other items within the database, or textual information.[4]

Wikibase has a JavaScript-based user interface, and provides exports of all or subsets of data in many formats. Projects using it include Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons,[5] Europeana's Eagle Project, Lingua Libre,[6] FactGrid, and the OpenStreetMap wiki.[7]

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Notes and References

  1. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Strategy_for_Wikibase_Ecosystem.pdf Strategy for the Wikibase Ecosystem
  2. Web site: Wikibase Roadmap 2020 . 2021-01-14 . 2022-10-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221018132338/https://eu-rm.roadmunk.com/publish/6c62c9c28e6e6544fb9911af0c956af91fd15810 . dead .
  3. Vrandecic. D.. 2013. The Rise of Wikidata. IEEE Intelligent Systems. 28. 4. 90–95. 10.1109/MIS.2013.119. 8073151. 1541-1672.
  4. 10.4403/jlis.it-12458. 2038-1026. 9. 3. 35–74. Bergamin. Giovanni. Bacchi. Cristian. New ways of creating and sharing bibliographic information: an experiment of using the Wikibase Data Model for UNIMARC data. JLIS.it. 2018-10-21. 2018-09-15. 2021-10-29. https://web.archive.org/web/20211029140746/https://www.jlis.it/article/view/12458. dead.
  5. Web site: Version - SpecialPage . Wikimedia Commons . 27 January 2023 . en.
  6. Web site: Who uses Wikibase? . Wikibase . https://web.archive.org/web/20210612133025/https://wikiba.se/projects/ . 2021-06-12 . dead.
  7. Web site: Data items. OpenStreetMap Wiki. 2019-05-12. 2021-10-29. https://web.archive.org/web/20211029155217/https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Data_items. live.

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