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Am I missing something? Wikidata talks big, but apparently it only contains lists of different language versions of Wikipedia articles. (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Introduction#What_do_...) There doesn't seem to be any sort of codified plan forward, so I'm not sure what to think of it.

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The initial goals don't seem world changing, but maybe at Wikipedia scale they could be:

We are working on three major things:

1. Centralizing language links

2. Providing a central place for infobox data for all Wikipedias

3. Creating and updating list articles based on data in Wikidata

In particular I imagine this will have an initial impact of massively increasing the quality of the lesser used Wiki languages, by leveraging the work on the busier sites.

You might want to dig into the documentation on the Wikimedia Meta site: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata

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