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Wikidata:About/Wikidata
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'''Wikidata''' aims to create a free [[w:Knowledge base|knowledge base]] about the world that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike. It will provide data in all the languages of the Wikimedia projects, and allow for the central access to data in a similar vein as Wikimedia Commons does for multimedia files. Wikidata is proposed as a new Wikimedia hoste(contracted; show full)|-
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* [[Wikidata/Status updates|Weekly updates]]
* [https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l Mailing list]
* {{Channel|wikimedia-wikidata}}
* [http://twitter.com/wikidata Twitter] / [http://identi.ca/wikidata identi.ca] / [http://www.facebook.com/Wikidata Facebook] / [http://plus.google.com/105776413863749545202/posts Google+]
 / [http://www.quora.com/Wikidata Quora]
* [[Global message delivery/Targets/Wikidata|On-wiki newsletter]] ([[Wikidata/Newsletter/Archive|archive]])
* [[Wikidata/Events|Events]]
* [[Wikidata/Press|Press]]
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Impact on Wikipedia</translate> ==

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We are working on 3 major things:
# Centralizing language links
# Providing a central place for infobox data for all Wikipedias
# Creating and updating list articles based on data in Wikidata
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Status and timeline </translate> ==

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We are posting regular summaries of the activities around Wikidata on [[Wikidata/Status updates|Status updates]].

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The current status and timeplan for Wikidata is:

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* The Wikidata development team started working on the technical proposal in April 2012. Some had already started in March, preparing the work.
* The development team is presenting previews to engage the community in the development; the public demo launched in May.
* The Wikidata development team had a demo and heavily attended presentations at Wikimania 2012.
* The Wikidata development team aims for a launch of the language links features by end of northern summer / early northern autumn 2012.
* The Wikidata development team aims to have ways to input and browse data available for infoboxes by December 2012 / January 2013.
* The initial development for Wikidata is planned for one year: April 2012 – March 2013.
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