We are now experiencing a couple of cases where third party uses data from Wikidata to create user interface of data from it without any use of Wikipedia, to support their own systems. One is a genealogy website, who use Wikidata to present where parish having genealogy records can be found on a map, using coordinates etc for these parisihes from Wikidata. Another in an early phase is a water authority who will load Wikidata with their data and present data from there.
Is this part of a trend, are there many cases like these?
Does statistics exist giving how many acesses goes to Wikidata from 3-parties? Are we missing these in our use statistic by focusing on access to Wikipedia?
Anders
Hah! Which genealogy site is it? A page on WD that compiles these (and uses that don't use the API but use bulk data) would be lovely.
On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 10:45 AM Anders Wennersten mail@anderswennersten.se wrote:
We are now experiencing a couple of cases where third party uses data from Wikidata to create user interface of data from it without any use of Wikipedia, to support their own systems. One is a genealogy website, who use Wikidata to present where parish having genealogy records can be found on a map, using coordinates etc for these parisihes from Wikidata. Another in an early phase is a water authority who will load Wikidata with their data and present data from there.
Is this part of a trend, are there many cases like these?
Does statistics exist giving how many acesses goes to Wikidata from 3-parties? Are we missing these in our use statistic by focusing on access to Wikipedia?
Anders
Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org