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Primary Sources Tool for Wikidata
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# Wikidata primary sources tool
A platform to release and curate third-party datasets for Wikidata.

[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/Wikidata/primarysources.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/Wikidata/primarysources)
See the following links for more information:
- [Wikidata project page](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Primary_sources_tool);
- [Phabricator project](https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/2788/).

[Freebase](https://freebase.com) was launched to be a “Wikipedia for structured data”, because in
2007 there was no such project. But now we do have Wikidata, and Wikidata
and its community is developing very fast. Today, the goals of Freebase
might be better served by supporting Wikidata.
# Overview
![Tool architecture](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Wikidata_primary_sources_tool_architecture_v2.svg)

See https://plus.google.com/109936836907132434202/posts/bu3z2wVqcQc
# Acknowledgments
This work was supported by the **[StrepHit renewal](https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/StrepHit:_Wikidata_Statements_Validation_via_References/Renewal)**
Wikimedia Individual Engagement Grant.

Freebase has seen a huge amount of effort go into it since it went public
in 2007. It makes a lot of sense to make the results of this work available
to Wikidata. But knowing Wikidata and its community a bit, it is obvious
that we can not and should not simply upload Freebase data to Wikidata:
Wikidata would prefer the data to be referenced to external, primary sources.
See the following links for details on the development timeline:
- [monthly reports](https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/StrepHit:_Wikidata_Statements_Validation_via_References/Renewal/Timeline);
- [midpoint report](https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/StrepHit:_Wikidata_Statements_Validation_via_References/Renewal/Midpoint);
- [final report](https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/StrepHit:_Wikidata_Statements_Validation_via_References/Renewal/Final).

The Primary Sources Tool is an Open Source tool which will run on Wikimedia
labs and which will allow Wikidata contributors to find references for a
statement and then upload the statement and the reference to Wikidata. We
will release several sets of Freebase data ready for consumption by this tool
under a CC0 license. This tool should also work for statements already in
Wikidata without sufficient references, or for other datasets, like DBpedia
and other machine extraction efforts, etc.

Website and discussion of this tool:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Primary_sources_tool
# License
The source code is under the terms of the [Apache License, version 2.0](http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) and the [GNU General Public License, version 3](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html).

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