- cross-posted to:
- wikipedia@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- wikipedia@lemmy.ml
Wikidata is where Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects store general structured data for pages. This data can then be easily important to other Wiki projects or alternative language pages. E.g the data associated with Douglas Adams:

is stored on Wikidata and can be imported directly into Wikipedia and other wiki projects.
You can help improve Wikidatas Lemmy knowledge by
- Find a page, e.g Trance
- Scroll all the way down to the bottom and click
+ add statement. - Type
Lemmy Community IDand click the pop up, in thePropertyfield. - Find a relevant Lemmy community, and enter it in the community field in the format of
community_name@instance_name, e.g !trance_music@lemmy.world - Then click
Publish.




Is there a working example of this? I couldn’t find the Lemmy entry on the trance wikidata page.
Despite using it as an example, I didn’t actually set it for Trance.
Here’s a full list of current data https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:List_of_Lemmy_communities
Here’s an example of a page (from the list) that has Lemmy community data https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133379979