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Concept: Add link to Wikipedia QID for Qamarniso Vrandečić (Q61768970)
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Wikidata is a [[document-oriented database]], focusing on ''items'', which represent any kind of topic, concept, or object. Each item is allocated a unique [[persistent identifier]] called its ''QID'', a positive integer prefixed with the upper-case letter "Q"{{efn|Q is the first initial of Qamarniso Vrandečić (née Ismoilova), an Uzbek Wikimedian married to Wikidata co-developer [[Denny Vrandečić]].{{cite book |last1=Vrandečić |first1=Denny |last2=Pintscher |first2=Lydia |last3=Krötzsch |first3=Markus |title=Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023 |chapter=Wikidata: The Making of |date=30 April 2023 |pages=615–624 |chapter-url=https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3543873.3585579 |doi=10.1145/3543873.3585579|isbn=9781450394192 |s2cid=258377705 }}}}. This makes it possible to provide translations of the basic information describing the topic each item covers without favouring any particular language. |
Wikidata is a [[document-oriented database]], focusing on ''items'', which represent any kind of topic, concept, or object. Each item is allocated a unique [[persistent identifier]] called its ''QID'', a positive integer prefixed with the upper-case letter "Q"{{efn|Q is the first initial of [[:wikidata:Q61768970|Qamarniso Vrandečić]] (née Ismoilova), an Uzbek Wikimedian married to Wikidata co-developer [[Denny Vrandečić]].{{cite book |last1=Vrandečić |first1=Denny |last2=Pintscher |first2=Lydia |last3=Krötzsch |first3=Markus |title=Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023 |chapter=Wikidata: The Making of |date=30 April 2023 |pages=615–624 |chapter-url=https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3543873.3585579 |doi=10.1145/3543873.3585579|isbn=9781450394192 |s2cid=258377705 }}}}. This makes it possible to provide translations of the basic information describing the topic each item covers without favouring any particular language. |
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Some examples of items and their QIDs are {{Wikidata entity link|Q8470}}, {{Wikidata entity link|Q316}}, {{Wikidata entity link|Q42775}}, {{Wikidata entity link|Q303}}, and {{Wikidata entity link|Q36611}}. |
Some examples of items and their QIDs are {{Wikidata entity link|Q8470}}, {{Wikidata entity link|Q316}}, {{Wikidata entity link|Q42775}}, {{Wikidata entity link|Q303}}, and {{Wikidata entity link|Q36611}}. |
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