Wikidata
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5recommend
1warn against
Dec 5, 2025first mention
Jul 15, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I used Wikidata as source, ArangoDB as database, Redis for caching, Vue+ Cytoscape.js for frontend.”
built HumansMapon “HumansMap, a feed of family dynasties and links betw…”
“you can use Sparql to perform structured queries on Wikidata (a structured database version of Wikipedia)”
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“The Wikidata documentation is good”
“This is actually a good fit for a Wikidata SPARQL query you can run here https://query.wikidata.org/”
“I like WikiData for tasks like these that require consolidating multiple different identifiers for the same work”
Caveats and dissent
“which uses RDF dumps (and probably 8x less compressed than it should be)”
Who recommends it in their own words
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“This same idea as a Wikidata query”
“I used Wikidata as source, ArangoDB as database, Redis for caching, Vue+ Cytoscape.js for frontend.”
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“you can use Sparql to perform structured queries on Wikidata (a structured database version of Wikipedia)”
“The Wikidata documentation is good”
“This is actually a good fit for a Wikidata SPARQL query you can run here https://query.wikidata.org/”
“which uses RDF dumps (and probably 8x less compressed than it should be)”
“I like WikiData for tasks like these that require consolidating multiple different identifiers for the same work”
“I find WikiData to be perfect for aggregating identifiers.”
“Took about 2 minutes with no prior experience to remove the dead IA link”