Commons:Wikidata

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Wikidata is a Wikimedia project to create an open and collaborative database. It is for data what Wikimedia Commons is for media files: it centralizes access and management of structured data, such as interwiki references and statistical information. Wikidata contains data in all languages for which there are Wikimedia projects. It is also deployed on Wikimedia Commons (since September 2013).

For more information, see Short introduction to Wikidata.

Wikimedia Commons on Wikidata

Information about Commons is stored in Wikidata in two forms: as sitelinks, and as statements on items.

Sitelinks

Sitelinks identify a 1-to-1 mapping between Wiki-pages and items on Wikidata. They are added and edited in the right side (large screen) or lower part (narrow screen) of the Wikidata page for an item.

Only Commons galleries and Commons categories should be sitelinked from Wikidata items.

Statements

Information about Commons can be stored on Wikidata using statements. Statements can be read by templates and programs which access Wikidata. Statements can be added and edited in the left side of the Wikidata page for an item. Some statement examples are presented below:

Statements pointing to Commons pages

Title	ID	Data type	Description
Commons category	P373	String	name of the Commons category page containing files related to this article-like or category-like item
Commons gallery	P935	String	name of the Commons gallery page containing files related to this article-like or category-like item
Commons Creator page	P1472	String	name of the Commons creator template containing information related to this article-like item for a person
Commons institution template	P1612	String	name of the Commons institution template containing information related to this article-like item for an organisation
Commons maps category	P3722	String	name of the Wikimedia Commons category specifically for maps or plans of this item

Statements pointing to media on Commons

Title	ID	Data type	Description
image	P18	Commons media file	an image depicting the subject (person, species, etc.); more specific properties should be used when more description is required, e.g. signature (P109), logo image (P154), locator map image (P242) and detail map (P1621)
video	P10	Commons media file	relevant video
audio	P51	Commons media file	a relevant sound
pronunciation audio	P443	Commons media file	audio media file on Wikimedia Commons with pronunciation
recording of the subject's voice	P990	Commons media file	audio file representing the voice of a person or character
scan file	P996	Commons media file	file on Wikimedia Commons related to the content of the source/book/report
geoshape	P3896	Geographic shape	geographic data from Wikimedia Commons
3D model	P4896	Commons media file	representation of any three-dimensional surface of an object

For a full list of properties with data type "commonsMedia" see list of properties on Wikidata, and sort by data type. Or see wikidata: Special:ListProperties?datatype=commonsMedia.

Properties relating article-like and category-like items

Title	ID	Data type	Description
topic's main category	P910	Item	identifier for the category-like item that contains links to the category on Commons and the category on each Wikipedia which is considered the main category for the concept
category's main topic	P301	Item	identifier for the article-like item that contains links to the article on each Wikipedia which is considered the main article for the category. The identified item will also contain the link(s) to any related gallery page(s) on Commons.

Wikidata on Commons

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{{On Wikidata}} allows placing additional links from a Commons page to Wikidata items