Giving more people more access to more knowledge

with open data

Lydia Pintscher @nightrose

Everyone needs access to knowledge!

½ BillionWikipedia readers/month

nearly 300Wikipedia language editions

nearly 300Wikipedia language editions

161Wikipedia language editions with an

article about Pablo Picasso

English Wikipedia

Spanish Wikipedia

Russian Wikipedia

Farsi Wikipedia

Japanese Wikipedia

A knowledge base that is:

1. open + collaborative

2. multilingual

3. a secondary database

1. data source

2. data hub

3. tagging vocabulary

A knowledge base that is:

1. open + collaborative

2. multilingual

3. a secondary database

read-only open data

read-only open data

Connected Open Heritage

by Wikimedia Sverige

Things to keep in mind

Become a part of the community!

Open is messy but rewarding!

Share your achievements!

Good data is used!

Find more maps showing coverage of individual Wikipedias at https://ddll.inf.tu-dresden.de/web/Wikidata/Maps-06-2015/en

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