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Re:Why I Left iNaturalist by kyle-rb on Friday January 09, 2026 @01:23AM (#46550686)
Wikidata is a separate project, specifically for structured data in the form of semantic triples [0]. It's essentially the open-source version of Google's KnowledgeGraph; both sourced a lot of their initial data from Metaweb's Freebase [1], which Google acquired in 2010.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_triple

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebase_(database)

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Re:Why I Left iNaturalist by rafram on Friday January 09, 2026 @07:59AM (#46553372)
Many Wikipedia articles have infobox fields that pull their values from Wikidata (and are only editable through Wikidata).
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