Wikidata is trying to make re-use possible beyond Wikipedia, as well. In fact there's already a couple of apps built with it. Here's a trivial genealogy visuali

Wikidata is trying to make re-use possible beyond Wikipedia, as well. In fact there's already a couple of apps built with it. Here's a trivial genealogy visualization using the API: https://toolserver.org/~magnus/ts2/geneawiki/?q=Q1339 https://toolserver.org/~magnus/ts2/geneawiki/?q=Q1339 It's also worth noting that Freebase itself heavily relied on parsing Wikipedia database dumps to build its ontology -- to a large extent Wikidata is giving structure to data that's been in Wikipedia all along.