Wikidata Flashcards
(10 cards)
1
Q
What is Wikidata?
A
Free, open knowledge graph anyone can read or edit.
2
Q
Licence for Wikidata data?
A
CC0 1.0 (public domain).
3
Q
Who can edit Wikidata?
A
Anyone—crowd-edited community.
4
Q
Three building blocks of the data model.
A
Items, properties, values.
5
Q
Example of Item–Property–Value.
A
Albert Einstein – Date of birth – 14 Mar 1879.
6
Q
Two key features of Wikidata.
A
Multilingual support; central store for Wikimedia projects.
7
Q
Two more key features.
A
Linked-data connectivity; open & reusable.
8
Q
Why is Wikidata constantly updated?
A
Continuous crowd edits improve and expand data.
9
Q
Two headline benefits for users.
A
Centralised, standardised dataset; freely reusable.
10
Q
Two typical use cases.
A
Research datasets; auto-filled Wikipedia infoboxes.
