About WikiRecord

WikiRecord is a free, independent online encyclopedia covering every subject: people, places, organisations, works, events, species, substances and ideas. It brings together the largest open reference databases in the world and presents them as one consistent, readable encyclopedia, with every fact traceable to its source.

WikiRecord's mission is to make the world's openly published knowledge available to everyone in one place, accurately, neutrally and free of charge, without advertising or tracking.

WikiRecord contains every article on Wikipedia in all of its more than 340 language editions (open any article's language menu, or go to an address such as /de/wiki/Berlin), a page for each of the more than 120 million records on Wikidata, and records from 21 open databases in total, from research papers and chemical compounds to music, films, artworks and registered companies. The current totals are shown on the main page.

Each page is built from established open sources when it is opened:

• Wikipedia, in every language, gives the article text. It is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, and every article links to the original and its authors.
• Wikidata gives the facts in the infoboxes: for people, birthday, age, height, family, relationships, social accounts and follower counts; for everything else, location, population, area, founding date, creators, developers and more. Wikidata is public domain (CC0).
• Fan wikis (the TikTok Wiki, Wikitubia, the Twitch Wiki and the Kpop Wiki on Fandom) cover creators who have no Wikipedia article yet. Their text is available under CC BY-SA.
• Wikimedia Commons supplies images, video and sound, each shown with its author and licence; Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikivoyage, Wikisource, Wikibooks and Wikispecies supply dictionary entries, quotations, travel guides, source texts, textbooks and taxonomy (CC BY-SA 4.0).
• OpenAlex supplies research papers and researchers (CC0); PubChem, from the US National Library of Medicine, chemical compounds; UniProt proteins (CC BY 4.0); and GBIF, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, species and billions of species observations.
• Open Library and Project Gutenberg supply books and free e-books, and Open Food Facts supplies food products (ODbL).
• The Internet Archive supplies books, films, recordings and software, each under the terms given by its uploader; MusicBrainz songs, albums and artists (CC0); TVmaze television series and the people in them (CC BY-SA 4.0); GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation, registered companies (CC0); the RCSB Protein Data Bank 3D structures of proteins and other molecules (CC0); and the Art Institute of Chicago artworks (CC0).

A small number of articles are written by WikiRecord's editors for subjects the databases do not yet cover; each says so at its foot.

Every page names its source, the revision used and the licence, and links to the original record. Article text keeps Wikipedia's references; infobox facts can be checked against the linked Wikidata record. Information about living people is limited to what published sources state. The full rules are set out in the editorial standards.

Lists rank people and things by reach: the number of Wikipedia language editions and sister sites that cover them, or by a stated measure such as population or height. Equal figures are ordered alphabetically, so no country, language or group is favoured. Trending pages use the previous day's page views on English Wikipedia.

Pages change when their sources change, usually within an hour. The quickest way to correct an error is to correct the source: the Wikipedia article named at the foot of every article, or the Wikidata record linked from every infobox.

WikiRecord has no accounts, no advertising and no tracking cookies. Visits are counted with a one-way pseudonymous code and no IP addresses are stored. See the privacy policy.

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