# App/Wiki types/Wikidata

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Wikidata (www.wikidata.org) is the Wikimedia Foundation's approach to centralizing data across all its wikis. To quote from its main page:

> It is for data what Wikimedia Commons is for media files: it centralizes access to and management of structured data, such as interwiki references and statistical information. Wikidata contains data in all languages for which there are Wikimedia projects.[1]

This page has a brief explanation of wikidata in relation to XOWA.

## Phase 1: Interlanguage links

Phase 1 began in February of 2013. It involved moving all language links from an individual page to Wikidata.

For example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth used to have a link at the bottom of the page with the text of [[fr:Terre]]. This was a link to the Earth article on http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terre .

With Phase 1, this link was removed, and now Wikipedia does a lookup into wikidata to find the corresponding Terre article.

As of v0.3.2 (2013-03-25) XOWA now emulates that process, but requires that www.wikidata.org be downloaded.

## Phase 2: Infoboxes

Phase 2 is scheduled to start at the end of March 2013. It involves moving infoboxes data to Wikidata

XOWA currently supports basic features of Phase 2 -- namely the {{#property}}.

## References

1. ^ http://www.wikidata.org/Main_Page

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