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It holds a pen name or heteronym as a string on its bearer's item, and heteronyms also as items, some of the archive's deleted under its notability policy." }, "sentences": [ { "n": 1, "para": 0, "text": "Wikidata is a free, collaborative, multilingual and secondary knowledge base that collects structured data to support Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, the other wikis of the Wikimedia movement and anyone in the world; it describes itself as a knowledge base that humans and machines can both read and edit, and Wikipedia describes it as a collaboratively edited multilingual knowledge graph hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.", "claims": [ "F29", "F1", "F43", "F7", "LS-01" ] }, { "n": 2, "para": 0, "text": "It is the central store of structured data for the Wikimedia projects, supplying their interlanguage links and some of their infobox data, and its repository is open to the Foundation's wikis and to others; a 2020 study reported by Wikipedia found that transclusion affecting an article's content occurred in about 5% of English Wikipedia articles.", "claims": [ "F2", "F37", "F45", "F9", "F25" ] }, { "n": 3, "para": 1, "text": "The Wikimedia Foundation hosts and owns it and Wikimedia Deutschland mainly develops it; it was launched on 29 October 2012 as the Foundation's first new project since 2006, its creation funded with €1.3 million from the Allen Institute for AI, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and Google.", "claims": [ "F9", "F19", "F18", "LS-02", "LS-29" ] }, { "n": 4, "para": 1, "text": "Its data is entered and maintained by editors, who decide the rules of content creation and management, and by automated bots, and a 2020 study reported by Wikipedia found that a large share of the data was imported en masse from other databases by bots; its method combines community editing and bot imports with references, ranks and constraints.", "claims": [ "F31", "F17", "LS-12" ] }, { "n": 5, "para": 2, "text": "On 1 November 2026 its main page counted 123,855,402 data entities; Wikipedia gives more than 123 million entities in October 2026 and 1.65 billion item statements in early 2025, the second figure marked as needing verification, and items for scholarly articles are the largest part of its content, followed by biographies.", "claims": [ "F3", "F10", "F16", "LS-07", "LS-30" ] }, { "n": 6, "para": 3, "text": "Its repository consists mainly of items, each with a label, a description and any number of aliases and identified by a Q followed by a number, a persistent QID; its showcase item is the author Douglas Adams, Q42.", "claims": [ "F33", "F11", "F5", "LS-06" ] }, { "n": 7, "para": 3, "text": "Labels need not be unique, while the combination of a label and its description must be.", "claims": [ "F12" ] }, { "n": 8, "para": 3, "text": "Statements describe an item by a property and a value, properties carrying P-numbers such as educated at (P69); formally they are key–value pairs, so that the property \"author\" can take as its value a person such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.", "claims": [ "F34", "F13" ] }, { "n": 9, "para": 3, "text": "Qualifiers refine a statement and references may annotate it, both optional parts of a statement on the item page, and each statement has a rank: normal, preferred, or deprecated for a value known to contain errors.", "claims": [ "F14", "F51" ] }, { "n": 10, "para": 3, "text": "On the archive's reading, the statement exists in two forms: the full statement carries rank, qualifiers and references, and the truthy statement keeps the best-ranked simple value, the entity form \"at its purest: a name, a property, a value, with the operation and its evidence left on the full statement\".", "claims": [ "D1697-02" ] }, { "n": 11, "para": 3, "text": "It calls itself secondary because it records statements with their sources and their connections to other databases, which supports verifiability, and the census accordingly counts it no primary source; data entered in any one language is available in all the others.", "claims": [ "F32", "LS-23", "F36" ] }, { "n": 12, "para": 4, "text": "Its introduction publishes the data under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 dedication, to be copied, modified and distributed without permission and for commercial purposes, and Wikipedia and a Library Carpentry lesson describe its data the same way; its page footer, a note in Wikipedia and the census record confine CC0 to structured data in the main, Property, Lexeme and EntitySchema namespaces, with text in the other namespaces under CC BY-SA, held by the Wikimedia Foundation, and its content is exported in standard formats and can be interlinked with other open data sets.", "claims": [ "F30", "F8", "F52", "F40", "F24", "LS-31", "LS-10", "F4" ] }, { "n": 13, "para": 4, "text": "Ford and Iliadis, quoted by the archive, observe that third parties can legally store its facts in proprietary databases and so lose their dependence on Wikidata and Wikipedia as a source, with possible costs to data workers and the political economy of data labor.", "claims": [ "D623-01" ] }, { "n": 14, "para": 5, "text": "The Wikidata Query Service, announced in 2015, answers SPARQL queries over the data, its page listing the prefixes of its vocabulary, and it and Reasonator are among the tools for examining items; introductory videos present it as the way to ask questions of the data and visualize it.", "claims": [ "F20", "F28", "F38", "F42" ] }, { "n": 15, "para": 5, "text": "In June 2026 the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Deutschland chose QLever to replace Blazegraph, with all query traffic to move by 30 June 2027, and the Query Service Days of October 2026 addressed the migration; the introduction was last edited on 21 October 2026.", "claims": [ "F20", "F6", "LS-28", "F41" ] }, { "n": 16, "para": 5, "text": "The data is also reached through APIs, among them a REST API stable since 11 November 2024, and through Lua on client wikis.", "claims": [ "LS-27" ] }, { "n": 17, "para": 6, "text": "The Wikidata Embedding Project, available since October 2025, offers vector-based search by plain-language query and supports the Model Context Protocol, making the data more readily available to AI systems, and virtual assistants such as Siri and Alexa have used the dataset; the archive states that Wikidata feeds AI systems.", "claims": [ "F21", "F23", "D623-02" ] }, { "n": 18, "para": 6, "text": "Google helped fund its creation, announced in December 2014 that it would shut down its own Freebase in Wikidata's favor and closed Freebase in 2016, and Google's Knowledge Graph draws on Wikidata's data; the archive reads Google's entity reconciliation as able to draw on Wikidata QIDs beside Wikipedia pages, Knowledge Graph IDs and ORCID.", "claims": [ "F18", "F22", "F44", "D115-01" ] }, { "n": 19, "para": 6, "text": "On a reading the archive holds, inclusion in Wikidata and Wikipedia increasingly decides whether an entity is real for the applications downstream of them: search results, knowledge panels, AI training data and citation indices.", "claims": [ "D261-01" ] }, { "n": 20, "para": 7, "text": "A property that links an item to an external database, such as an authority control database used by libraries and archives, is called an identifier, and through such properties Wikidata interlinks identifiers like ORCID, GND and VIAF, maps them for authority control and crosswalks one to another; it also contains authority files and bibliographic data.", "claims": [ "F35", "F47", "F48", "F49", "F46" ] }, { "n": 21, "para": 7, "text": "It has properties for ISNI (P213), VIAF (P214) and ORCID (P496), it incorporates VIAF file numbers, and Wikipedia lists it, with a citation needed, among VIAF's participants.", "claims": [ "F69", "F72", "F74", "F70", "F71", "F73", "LS-13", "LS-25" ] }, { "n": 22, "para": 7, "text": "An author's item shows, in its Identifiers section, how the author stands in national library catalogs, the Virtual International Authority File and fan databases, and Verified Handles links its directory of social media accounts to Wikidata items.", "claims": [ "F50", "F27" ] }, { "n": 23, "para": 7, "text": "The archive anchors its own deposits to Wikidata among the external identity authorities of SPXI's fifth layer, with the stated dependency that the anchor degrades if those authorities are compromised or shut down.", "claims": [ "D755-01" ] }, { "n": 24, "para": 8, "text": "It is limited to basic statements, such as when and where a work was published and who wrote it, much like a catalog record, and Wikipedia carries the descriptive and narrative account; the census records it as a holder of statements about items, among them works, with an \"author\" statement pairing a work with a person.", "claims": [ "F53", "F54", "LS-08" ] }, { "n": 25, "para": 9, "text": "Property P742, pseudonym, is \"alias used by someone\", and its aliases include pen name, stage name, user name and heteronym; its value is a string of up to 100 characters without a semicolon, set on the item of a human, character, group of humans or another allowed subject, with qualifiers such as start time, end time and applies to work.", "claims": [ "F58", "F59", "F60", "F61", "F62", "F63", "LS-09", "LS-14" ] }, { "n": 26, "para": 9, "text": "Its examples pair a person with a name (Elsa Bernstein with Ernst Rosmer, Beyoncé with Sasha Fierce, Madonna with Louise Ciccone); it is equivalent to the GND's pseudonym element, nickname, subject named as and art name stand beside it, and its page was last edited on 24 August 2026; the census reads it as one property of Wikidata.", "claims": [ "F65", "F66", "F67", "F68", "LS-34" ] }, { "n": 27, "para": 10, "text": "Heteronyms are also held as items of their own: in April 2026 most of the Pessoa heteronyms on Wikidata were items described as \"heteronym used by Fernando Pessoa\", with their statements of instance, use, biography and works mostly carrying no reference.", "claims": [ "D668-01" ] }, { "n": 28, "para": 10, "text": "Within the archive three readings of that model stand: that Wikidata treats Pessoa's heteronym as a first-class node of type heteronym linked to Pessoa by a creator property, \"closer to correct\" (#96, May 2026); that its categories assume one author to one person and force a heteronym either into its biographical author or into fiction, collapsing heteronyms into pseudonym categories (#261, January 2026); and that it flattens Pessoa's typology into the one class \"heteronym\" (#668, April 2026).", "claims": [ "D96-01", "D261-02", "D261-03", "D261-04", "D668-02" ] }, { "n": 29, "para": 10, "text": "Between 22 April and 20 May 2026 an account declared as the archive editor's created about 155 items and amended more than 60, among them heteronym items such as Johannes Sigil (Q139796042) and thirty-three heteronyms of Pessoa, under the principle that a heteronym, with a constructed biography, worldview and style, is distinguished from a pseudonym; an amendment it made to the item \"heteronym\" was reverted.", "claims": [ "D761-01", "D761-02", "D761-03", "D761-04", "D761-05", "D761-06" ] }, { "n": 30, "para": 10, "text": "The archive's Pessoa Knowledge Graph models the kinds of heteronym as distinct values of instance of (P31) and the heteronym as author (P50) of its works, and reads statements sourced only by import from Wikipedia or VIAF as vulnerable.", "claims": [ "D668-03", "D668-04" ] }, { "n": 31, "para": 10, "text": "In the archive's minting procedure for a heteronymic position, the description of its Wikidata item declares the position heteronymic, as the canonical web page and the ORCID alternate-name field do (#1009).", "claims": [ "D1009-01" ] }, { "n": 32, "para": 10, "text": "Wikidata holds the archive's concepts and persons as items, among them Lee Sharks (Q139713433) and the Crimson Hexagonal Archive (Q139807914), both resolving on 20 October 2026, and Operative Semiotics (Q139807910), the authorship of these items left unestablished by the archive.", "claims": [ "D1697-04", "D1611-01" ] }, { "n": 33, "para": 11, "text": "A notability policy decides what data belongs: an item is admitted with a valid sitelink, as a clearly identifiable conceptual or material entity describable by serious and publicly available references, or for a structural need, so that admission needs no Wikipedia article, and on the archive's reading the threshold is lower than Wikipedia's by design.", "claims": [ "F39", "LS-16", "D1697-01", "D1697-03", "D1192-03" ] }, { "n": 34, "para": 11, "text": "Property constraints are treated as testing alerts and hints, citation on P742 is a suggestion constraint, and the census records that references are optional, so that whether a given statement is sourced stays open.", "claims": [ "F15", "F64", "LS-15", "LS-24", "LS-19" ] }, { "n": 35, "para": 11, "text": "On 20 December 2025 the items for the archive's heteronyms and for the New Human movement were deleted after a notification applying a test of a Wikipedia article, a structural need, or identifiers with serious sources; Johannes Sigil was kept for a time as founder of the deleted New Human, and after the record was published and an ombudsman complaint made, the logs and one entry were restored.", "claims": [ "D1192-01", "D1192-02", "D1192-04", "D1192-05" ] }, { "n": 36, "para": 11, "text": "On 4 January 2026 the item Q137446960, Johannes Sigil, holding a label and the description \"Poet and founder of New Human\", was deleted as an \"Empty item\", and New Human (Q137460296) was deleted as spam; once an item is deleted, its history is visible to administrators alone.", "claims": [ "D5-01", "D5-02", "D5-05", "D1697-04" ] }, { "n": 37, "para": 11, "text": "The archive reads these deletions as a threshold favoring institutional validation over independent scholarship, creation bound to criteria and deletion to an administrator's judgment, the burden falling on the described entity, and counts as lost a node connecting a name to its works (#5); it places the heteronymous among those on whom the existence tax falls, everyone whose existence the index has not already ratified (#1722).", "claims": [ "D5-03", "D5-04", "D5-06", "O1722-02" ] }, { "n": 38, "para": 12, "text": "The leesharks.com authorship census holds Wikidata as infrastructure in its areas of attribution and credit, heteronymy and meta-aggregation, admits it as an aggregator that gathers many records and says what it holds, and asks of it what sourced statements it holds about a person or work, the names a person used and the identifiers in other authority files, under the census's question of how authorship is made, named, distributed, attributed and sustained and what is lost when those relations collapse.", "claims": [ "LS-03", "LS-04", "LS-05", "LS-32", "LS-33" ] }, { "n": 39, "para": 12, "text": "In the terms of #940, a pseudonym changes the label attached to an authorial function and a heteronym changes the organization of the function itself, which is attributable through the civil bearer without being reducible to that bearer; the civil name is the atomic unit of attribution across the systems that govern legitimacy, and a heteronym is declared by a published registry of the orthonym, the roles and the dates (#1722).", "claims": [ "O940-01", "O940-02", "O940-03", "O1722-01" ] }, { "n": 40, "para": 12, "text": "On the census's reading, Wikidata holds a chosen name as data about its bearer, keeping the label and recording it as a pseudonym of one function, and it records no authorial function: an \"author\" statement links a work to an item, and P742 gives no place to a voice, corpus or responsibility distinct from the item's subject.", "claims": [ "LS-21", "LS-11", "LS-22" ] }, { "n": 41, "para": 12, "text": "It answers what sourced statements it holds, under which pseudonyms a person is recorded with what qualifiers, which authority identifiers an item carries and how a pen name or heteronym is held; it leaves open whether a name is a pseudonym or a heteronym in #940's sense, P742's aliases treating the two as one, and how authorial function is distributed in a work.", "claims": [ "LS-17", "LS-18", "LS-20" ] }, { "n": 42, "para": 12, "text": "The census did not read the notability and help pages, the items that use P742, or how a heteronym with an item of its own is linked to its bearer.", "claims": [ "LS-26" ] }, { "n": 43, "para": 13, "text": "In 2025 the Digital Public Goods Alliance recognised it as a digital public good, and teaching material introduces it, among it a Library Carpentry lesson last updated on 17 April 2026 and videos from the University of Edinburgh and Columbia SPS on setting up an account and on knowledge graphs.", "claims": [ "F26", "F55", "F56", "F57" ] }, { "n": 44, "para": 14, "text": "At the address of one of the archive's deletion records, a composer drew on Wikidata's deletion policy pages, administrator edit-count statistics and Meta-Wiki talk pages (#738).", "claims": [ "D738-01" ] }, { "n": 45, "para": 14, "text": "The archive predicts that where Wikidata statements exist both referenced and as truthy values, compositions reproduce the truthy value without its reference more often than they reproduce referenced article sentences without citation, and no difference would falsify the prediction (#1697).", "claims": [ "D1697-05" ] }, { "n": 46, "para": 14, "text": "Asked for the name on 1 November 2026, Google's AI Overview introduced the knowledge base as a newcomer would meet it, with host, license, items and statements and the query service, and the Capture Registry finds it accurate as a data model and query service, its statements and multilingual labels composed at their grain.", "claims": [ "CAP-1-07", "CAP-1-06", "CAP-1-01", "CAP-1-08" ] }, { "n": 47, "para": 14, "text": "The registry finds that the Overview left out Wikimedia Deutschland, the editors, the bots, the launch date and the count, gave the internal identifiers Q42 and P69 and no external one, used \"aliases\" as its only word for a second name and stated the license wider than the introduction's footer, so that the identifier hub and the pseudonym property, the two features that make Wikidata a census row, were absent.", "claims": [ "CAP-1-02", "CAP-1-04", "CAP-1-05", "CAP-1-03", "CAP-1-09", "F9", "F31", "F17", "F19", "F3", "F35", "F58", "F40" ] } ], "claims": { "F29": { "kind": "field", "quote": "Wikidata is a free , collaborative , multilingual , secondary knowledge base, collecting structured data to provide support for Wikipedia , Wikimedia Commons , the other wikis of the Wikimedia movement , and to anyone in the world.", "source": "B4", "source_label": "Wikidata — Wikidata:Introduction", "locus": "Introduction, opening", "modality": "stipulation" }, "F1": { "kind": "field", "quote": "Wikidata is a free and open knowledge base that can be read and edited by both humans and machines.", "source": "B1", "source_label": "Wikidata — Wikidata", "locus": "Main Page, 'Welcome!' ¶1", "modality": "stipulation" }, "F43": { "kind": "field", "quote": "Wikidata describes itself as “a free and open knowledge base that can be read and edited by both humans and machines.”", "source": "B6", "source_label": "GitHub — What is Wikidata?", "locus": "episode 1, 'What is Wikidata?' ¶1", "modality": "attributed" }, "F7": { "kind": "field", "quote": "Wikidata is a collaboratively edited multilingual knowledge graph hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation .", "source": "B2", "source_label": "Wikipedia — Wikidata - Wikipedia", "locus": "Wikipedia, lead s1 (also card 2 snippet)", "modality": "documented" }, "LS-01": { "kind": "archive", "quote": "a free, collaborative, multilingual, secondary knowledge base, collecting structured data (its own words); 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The compression, the field-only arm, the transcript, the delta and the kernel are in the row (links.row), which is the authority." }, "source": "operator, 2026-11-01: 'so lets get the lists, build the /non articles, then revise and finish the individual pages'; with the 23 captures: 'now we seat the captures, write the /nons - and the/nons are written as against the wikipedia pages where they exist, too, correct? - then come back and flesh out the single pages'", "stage": "composed 2026-11-01 under EA-NEGONT-02 v0.10, #1726, from the leesharks.com apparatus authorship census (CENSUS wikidata); equal case, ρ = extends. 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