Wikibase/FAQ

This FAQ is being expanded to include high- and low-level questions about Wikibase. Get ready for more!

The sections below are individually expandable.

What is the difference between Wikibase and Wikidata?
Wikibase is a suite of knowledge-base software for managing linked open data, originally written for and still used by the Wikidata project.

Wikidata is the largest instance of Wikibase, a free knowledge base that anyone can edit. Its data is used by Wikipedia, by its sister projects and by anyone else who wants to make use of a large amount of open general-purpose data.

Does Wikibase ship with a web API (like api.php) for remote access?
Wikibase extends the standard MediaWiki action API with modules such as  and query modules such as. You access these modules via  like the rest of the API and you can use wikidata:Special:ApiSandbox to explore the API. Some Wikimedia wikis run only the Wikibase client, while wikidata.org runs the full software.

Where can I find the source code?
Check out our developer resources.

I want to install Wikibase. How can I do so?
There are currently two options for installing Wikibase.


 * To install using our preconfigured Docker images, look here.
 * You can find detailed manual installation instructions here.

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