Wikidata: Wikimedia going structured data

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A new Wikimedia project starts with team of 12 working for one year to build Wikidata as a large free multilingual knowledge repository that supplies Wikipedia with structured statements, qualifiers and sources. It centralizes interwiki links and later moves infobox facts and automated lists into one database, exposes an API and RDF export draft on meta.wikimedia.org, and aims to reduce duplicate editing, enable simple form entry, power visualizations, and be reusable under an open license.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:48Wikimedia vision and reach
3. 3:04Technical challenges
4. 5:56Data disparity
5. 7:59Introducing Wikidata
6. 8:44Phase 1: Interwiki links
7. 10:07Phase 2: Info boxes
8. 10:57Phase 3: Automated lists
9. 11:58Benefits for contributors
10. 13:48Unique features
11. 15:49Future possibilities
12. 17:34Q&A session

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