WikipediA
Name
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in the
national language(s) and script(s) : Wikipedia
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in English
: Wikipedia
Location/Address
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
149 New Montgomery Street
Floor 6
San Francisco, CA 94105
United States
Web site
Note :
Wikipedia is a Non-Contributor VIAF source. The Wikimedia Foundation is not eligible to appoint a representative to VIAF Council.
Short description of the institution :
« The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual, educational content, and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge. The Wikimedia Foundation operates some of the largest collaboratively edited reference projects in the world, including Wikipedia, a top-ten internet property. » [source : http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home ]
Short description of the authority data
Content from Wikipedia articles is selectively sought and reused by VIAF.
Data provided to VIAF
Wikipedia data are used selectively by VIAF. Typical data used include factual data such as birth and death dates. VIAF adds appropriate Wikipedia URLs to VIAF clusters.
Data provided to Wikipedia
An
automated process, VIAFbot, adds appropriate VIAF identifiers to Wikipedia
articles (and via this channel VIAF identifiers become part of Dbpedia
and Wikidata representations of Wikipedia content).
Bibliography
Klein,
Maximillian, and Alex Kryios. 2013. VIAFbot and the Integration of Library Data
on Wikipedia. code{4}lib journal. Issue
22, 2013-10-14. http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/8964