LXer: Wikidata: Wikipedia to get a collaborative database
 

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Wikimedia Deutschland, the German chapter of Wikimedia, has announced the launch of a new project called Wikidata. According to the non-profit organisation, Wikidata – the first new Wikimedia project since 2006 – will "provide a collaboratively edited database of the world's knowledge" and, once completed, will be used by its other projects including the free Wikipedia online encyclopaedia.

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