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Wikidata: a free collaborative knowledgebase

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This collaboratively edited knowledgebase provides a common source of data for Wikipedia, and everyone else.

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cover image Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM  Volume 57, Issue 10
October 2014
99 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/2661061
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