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After reading the article, I wonder if Doqume has plans to share back the information to Wikidata that was derived from Wikipedia that was not present in Wikidata.

I know this lessens the power of claiming they know stuff that is not available to the public, but I would think Wikidata has ways of establishing the provenance of the data, so they should get credit as well as the original Wikipedia authors.

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Thanks for the question, whitten! You raise a very interesting point.

We definitely plan to contribute information back to Wikidata and, in fact, we already did as part of our experiment. We contributed more than a thousand edits, mainly on company data like industry of operation. Of course, we need to strike a balance between what we contribute back and what we keep as competitive advantage.

Besides that, we always comply with licenses and give credit to the original source when this is required. For example, when displaying Wikipedia content there's always a prominent link to the page where the content has been extracted from.

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