Wikidata award received Open Data Award
Reception
In November 2014, Wikidata received the Open Data Publisher Award from the Open Data Institute "for sheer scale, and built-in openness".In December 2014, Google announced that it would shut down Freebase in favor of Wikidata.As of November 2018, Wikidata information was used in 58.4% of all English Wikipedia articles, mostly for external identifiers or coordinate locations. In aggregate, data from Wikidata is shown in 64% of all Wikipedias' pages, 93% of all Wikivoyage articles, 34% of all Wikiquotes', 32% of all Wikisources', and 27% of Wikimedia Commons's. Usage in other Wikimedia Foundation projects is a testimonial.As of December 2020, Wikidata's data was visualized by at least 20 other external tools and over 300 papers have been published about Wikidata.Wikidata's structured dataset has been used by virtual assistants such as Apple's Siri and Amazon Alexa.
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