On 28 November 2017 at 14:36, Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.kenny+...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Wikidata, to me, is mysterious. > I don't believe that I've ever actually seen an application that > uses it * Google Search uses it * Google Translate uses it * The BBC website uses it * The Quora website uses it [1] * Songkick uses it [2] * The UK Parliament uses it (or are about to) * The International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) Authority use it * Wikipedia(!) uses it These are just a few examples. Often, the end users of these systems will not know that they are using a system that in turn uses Wikidata. A list of other sites and services - far from complete - that use it for authority control (i.e. disambiguation) is at: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikidata_for_authority_control [1] https://blog.quora.com/Announcing-Wikidata-References-on-Topics [2] https://blog.songkick.com/combining-forces-with-the-wikipedia-universe-38b562ced1e8 -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
