# The Wikidata revolution is here: enabling structured data on Wikipedia Wikimedia blog

<http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/04/25/the-wikidata-revolution/>

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## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

By providing Wikipedia editors with a central venue for their efforts to collect and vet such data, Wikidata leads to a higher level of consistency and quality in Wikipedia articles across the many language editions of the encyclopedia. Beyond Wikipedia, Wikidatas universal, machine-readable knowledge database will be freely reusable by anyone, enabling numerous external applications.

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