Overview

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Welcome to the Wikidata & Wikibase architecture documentation. The canonical place to read these docs is on Github Pages (opens new window).

This documentation has been created to provide a high level overview of Wikidata, Wikibase and surrounding systems.

Each system uses arc42 structured (opens new window) documentation. Detailed documentation for arc42 can be found here (opens new window).

Systems

The following diagram provides a high level view of the whole Wikidata / Wikibase system landscape. Its main goals and stakeholders are described in the following Introduction and Goals section.

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The context and scope section has more information on the diagram above.

Multiple top level systems are identified. Subsystems are provided in the list below for convenience.

• Wikibase Repository
  • Termbox & Termbox SSR
  • EntitySchema
  • Property Suggester
  • QualityConstraints
  • WikibaseLexeme
  • WikibaseMediaInfo
• Wikibase Client
  • DataBridge
  • Article Placeholder
• QueryService (wikitech docs (opens new window))
  • Query UI
  • Query Builder

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING