Wikidata as a linked-data hub for Biodiversity data 

Wikidata (http://www.wikidata.org) is the linked database of the Wikimedia Foundation. Like its sister project Wikipedia it is open to humans and machines. Initially primarily intended as a central repository of structured data for the approximately 200 language versions of Wikipedia, Wikidata currently also serves many other use cases. It is an open, Semantic Web-compatible database that anyone can edit. Here, we present the Gene Wiki initiative. In 2008, this project started by creating Wikipedia articles for all human genes (Huss et al. 2008). These articles were enriched with structured information on these genes as tables (called infoboxes). With the onset of Wikidata in 2012, the project diverted its attention from the infoboxes and since we have been enriching Wikidata with structured knowledge from public scientific resources on gene, proteins, diseases and compounds (Burgstaller-Muehlbacher et al. 2016). This structured information is added to Wikidata, while active links to the primary source are maintained. Adding a new resource to Wikidata is a community-driven process that starts with modelling the subjects of the resource under scrutiny. This invol