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Wikidata

Wikidata was founded in 2012 by Denny Vrandečić, Marcelo Valle Silveira Mello and Markus Krötzsch. It is a Developer Tools company.

Wikidata is a collaboratively edited multilingual knowledge graph hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.

Private Founded 2012 Developer Tools
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Wikidata founders & co-founders

3
D
Denny Vrandečić
Co-founder
 M
Marcelo Valle Silveira Mello
Co-founder
 M
Markus Krötzsch
Co-founder

What happened to Wikidata’s founders and alumni

4 companies

People who worked at or founded Wikidata and went on to start their own companies.

D 3 founded
Semantic-MediaWiki.org 2007 Wikifunctions 2023 Abstract Wikipedia 2026
M 1 founded
Semantic-MediaWiki.org 2007

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