That question could be applied to any other thing in the world where two possible options exists...
"why should I use A if I can do what I want already with B?" I'd suggest read more about Wikidata in your case, then it should be clear that Wikidata provides a totally different concept how the data is added. It does not extract data from Wikipedia, as DBpedia does, is a user curated source for for structured information which is included in Wikipedia. > I am sorry if it is slightly off topic. > > How Wikidata differs from DBpedia, in terms of building semantic web > applications. Wikidata, as I studied as, is a knowledge base which every > one can edit? How it differs then from Wikipedia? > > DBpedia extracts structured data from wikipedia infoboxes and publishes it > as rdf. > > If we need Berlin population, we get it from DBpedia via SPARQL. If we can > do it, why then we need Berlin resource in Wikidata? > > This question will look strange for some, but I want to understand the > concept. > Thank you > -- Lorenz Bühmann AKSW group, University of Leipzig Group: http://aksw.org - semantic web research center
