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If you google for "Rishi Sunak" you will get a "knowledge panel" on the right-hand side of your laptop screen.

It is a bit like a Wikipedia infobox. But what is the source of the information in it? Does it come from Wikipedia?

Understanding sources for data is a developing area. Basic points for this kind of "data journalism":


 * Data sourcing can be opaque, because the CC0 license used to make data open does not require attribution (sourcing) of data.
 * The Wikimedia project Wikidata uses the CC0 license.
 * English Wikipedia does not draw much infobox data from Wikidata, but Wikipedias in other languages do.
 * Data from English Wikipedia may go to DBpedia, and from there to Google and other commercial users.

The ecosystem is complicated!


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