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Wikidata is trying to make re-use possible beyond Wikipedia, as well. In fact there's already a couple of apps built with it. Here's a trivial genealogy visualization using the API:

https://toolserver.org/~magnus/ts2/geneawiki/?q=Q1339

It's also worth noting that Freebase itself heavily relied on parsing Wikipedia database dumps to build its ontology -- to a large extent Wikidata is giving structure to data that's been in Wikipedia all along.




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