Wikipedia:WikiProject Newspapers/Wikidata

Introduction to linking a Wikipedia article with its Wikidata entry, or starting a new Wikidata entry.

Wikidata is a sister site to Wikipedia; it is a hybrid between a wiki and a database, so it's much more structured than Wikipedia. Each item is essentially a data entry, with links to other data entries; so the item for the New York Times will have elements like "instance of ... newspaper" and "located in ... New York, New York". (Sample Wikidata item for New York Times - this one has a ton of info, a small local paper might only have 3 or 4 statements.)

Wikidata is expected, over time, to play a greater and greater role in how information is organized on the Internet. Other web services can query it as a database, and pull out structured information.