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Why use Wikipedia infoboxes instead of Wikidata items?

• crazygringo 8y ago
  I would have loved to use Wikidata -- I actually first attempted a prototype of this several years ago using the similar Freebase as a datasource, until it was bought and shut down by Google. Wikidata looked very promising, but I was worried if it would contain all the data I would wind up needing, or if it would be in the same format 2 or 5 years from now. Wikipedia is a household name and the information in it has a lot of eyeballs on it constantly, while Wikidata as a project I couldn't tell if I could be equally confident in -- so really just taking a conservative approach is the only reason.
  • ReverseCold 8y ago
    Wikidata is part of Wikimedia, which is the same org that controls Wikipedia.
    • afandian 8y ago
      Wikimedia 'controls' the software and infrastructure, but is relatively hands-off about the content. There is, shall we say, some give-and-take between Wikimedia and the various projects' communities. The communities overlap between Wikipedia and Wikidata to a large extent, but are distinct.