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alt="" height="59" width="59"></a>It has been
eleven years since the launch of Wikipedia changed
the way people look for information on the
Internet, and six years since the Wikimedia
Foundation has started any new projects. Now
they're back with "Wikidata." For many people,
Wikipedia replaced the library's encyclopedia;
will Wikidata replace the library's almanac?
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Introduction">Wikidata/Introduction</a>
(Wikimedia Meta-Wiki) "Many Wikipedia articles
contain facts and connections to other articles
that are not easily understood by a computer,
like the population of a country or the place of
birth of an actor. In Wikidata you will be able
to enter that information in a way that makes it
processable by the computer. This means that the
machine can provide it in different languages,
use it to create overviews of such data, like
lists or charts, or answer questions that can
hardly be answered automatically today."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/30/wikipedias-next-big-thing-wikidata-a-machine-readable-user-editable-database-funded-by-google-paul-allen-and-others/">Wikipedia's
next big thing: Wikidata</a>, a
machine-readable, user-editable database funded
by Google, Paul Allen and others
(TechCrunch/Sarah Perez) "The data will bring
all the localized versions of Wikipedia on par
with each other in terms of the basic facts they
house. Today, the English, German, French and
Dutch versions offer the most coverage, with
other languages falling much further behind.
Wikidata will also enable users to ask different
types of questions, like <em>which of the
world's ten largest cities have a female
mayor?</em>, for example."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2012/03/30/techies-team-up-to-make-wikipedia-smarter/">Techies
team up to make Wikipedia smarter</a>
(Digits/Shira Ovide) "The Wikidata project hopes
to link together each piece of information so
when a Wikipedia contributor inputs revised
facts, names and figures, this data will
automatically update on every Wikipedia page in
the world. The Wikidata backers said they
believe the project will make Wikipedia more
accurate and consistent across countries, and
free Wikipedia contributors from doing basic
maintenance on the encyclopedia's pages."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/data-revolution-for-wikipedia-145106905.html">Data
revolution for Wikipedia</a> (PR Newswire)
"Besides the Wikimedia projects, the data is
expected to be beneficial for numerous external
applications, especially for annotating and
connecting data in the sciences, in
e-Government, and for applications using data in
very different ways. The data will be published
under a free Creative Commons license."</li>
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<p style="text-align: left; font-size: 20px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><small><strong><em>Language
fact:</em></strong></small><br>
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<div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;">There are
more than 280 language editions of Wikipedia.
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