User:Dan Shick (WMDE)/Drafts/Lexicographical data

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Alongside its many millions of Q-items, in 2018 Wikidata began to store a new kind of data: words, phrases and sentences from the world's languages, described in those languages.

Wikidata stores this lexicographical data in entities called Lexemes (L), Forms (F) and Senses (S). Each entity's structured description is directly connected to the concepts it represents, allowing editors to precisely describe all of a language's lexemes. The data is reusable by the many tools and queries the community creates, not to mention the various Wikimedia projects and support for Wiktionary.