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Wikidata – Social Media meets Open Data

Work Session on the Communication of Statistics,27 – 29 June 2012, Geneva

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A game changer for Wikipedia and

beyond

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Agenda

Wikidata – Social Media meets Open Data What is Wikidata? What does Wikidata? Why is it „social“?

Conclusion: Why should we use it?

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What is Wikidata?

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What is Wikidata?

Structured data One common database Multilingual Machine-readable Collaboratively edited

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One common database

280 editions of Wikipedia

Countless websites

outside Wikipedia

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What does Wikidata?

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Phase 1: Interwiki links

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Wikidata “Switzerlan

d”

Schweiz(DE)

Suisse(FR)

Svizzera

(IT)

Switzerland(EN)

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Phase 2: Infoboxes

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Germany

Population: 81.8 Mill.

Wikidata Wikipedia: Infoboxes

Deutschland (DE)

Bevölkerung: 81,8 Mill.

Allemagne (FR)

Population: 81,8 Mill.

Population: 81.8 Mill.Population: 81.8 Mill.

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Wikidata

Germany

Population: 82.4 Mill.

Wikipedia: Infoboxes

Deutschland (DE)

Bevölkerung: 81,8 Mill.

Allemagne (FR)

Population: 81,8 Mill.

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Wikidata

Germany

Population: 82.4 Mill.

Wikipedia: Infoboxes

Deutschland (DE)

Bevölkerung: 82,4 Mill.

Allemagne (FR)

Population: 82,4 Mill.

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Phase 3: Lists

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Wikidata

Germany

Wikipedia: List

GDP (millions of US$)

France

Japan

US: 15.060.000

China: 6.989.000

GDP: 3.629.000

GDP: 2.808.000

GDP: 5.855.000

Germany: 3.629.000

France: 2.808.000

Japan: 5.855.000

GDP: 3.629.000

GDP: 2.808.000

GDP: 5.855.000

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Wikidata

Germany

GDP: 3.629.000

Wikipedia: List

GDP (millions of US$)

France

GDP: 3.808.000

Japan

GDP: 5.855.000

Germany: 3.629.000

France: 2.808.000

Japan: 5.855.000

US: 15.060.000

China: 6.989.000

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Wikidata

Germany

GDP: 3.629.000

Wikipedia: List

GDP (millions of US$)

France

GDP: 3.808.000

Japan

GDP: 5.855.000

Germany: 3.629.000

France: 3.808.000

Japan: 5.855.000

US: 15.060.000

China: 6.989.000

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Open Data? Of course! But why is

it “social”?

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The community decides whether data is useful or

not!

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Why should we use it?

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Conclusion: Why should we use it?

Dissemination of data Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Big step towards the semantic web

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Be part of it from the beginning!

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Thank you very much for your attention!

Christoph Bergmannchristoph.bergmann@destatis.de

Daniela Schuengeldaniela.schuengel@destatis.de

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