Wikidata: a Wikimedia project for linked/machine readable data

Wikipedia is amazing, everyone loves it. The point of Wikidata, then, is not just to create a database. It's to be able to answer questions.

Let's say you're on Henry VIII. You're interested in the wives of course. Well right in the infobox there's a list.

But let's say you wanted to know the birthplaces of all of Henry's wives? Yes you could click through all the links and jot down all the places in a spreadsheet. But Wikidata lets you just run a query and export a CSV: Birthplaces of Henry's Wives

And all the "QIDs" as we call them link to other things, that then have their own properties, etc. Here's The Dark Side of the Moon.

Enjoy your linked data!