The Wikidata revolution is here: enabling structured data on Wikipedia Wikimedia blog
blog.wikimedia.org/2013/04/25/the-wikidata-revolution
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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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