Wikimedia servers
E724571
Wikimedia servers are the global infrastructure of computers and data centers that store, process, and deliver content for Wikimedia Foundation projects such as Wikipedia, Wiktionary, and Wikiquote.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wikimedia servers canonical | 52 |
| Wikimedia databases | 2 |
| Wikimedia technical infrastructure | 1 |
| Wikimedia technical operations | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8300708 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wikimedia servers Context triple: [Italian Wikiquote, hostedOn, Wikimedia servers]
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A.
Wikimedia ecosystem
The Wikimedia ecosystem is the interconnected network of free knowledge projects, communities, and infrastructure coordinated by the Wikimedia Foundation, including Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and related initiatives.
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B.
Wikimedia Incubator
Wikimedia Incubator is a Wikimedia Foundation platform where new language editions of Wikimedia projects are developed and tested before becoming independent sites.
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C.
Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation is a nonprofit organization that hosts and supports Wikipedia and other free-knowledge projects worldwide.
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D.
Wikimedia Deutschland
Wikimedia Deutschland is the German chapter of the Wikimedia movement, a nonprofit organization that supports free knowledge projects such as Wikipedia through community, technical, and educational initiatives in Germany.
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E.
Wikimedia Commons
Wikimedia Commons is a free, collaboratively curated online repository of images, audio, video, and other media files that can be used across Wikimedia projects and beyond.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wikimedia servers Target entity description: Wikimedia servers are the global infrastructure of computers and data centers that store, process, and deliver content for Wikimedia Foundation projects such as Wikipedia, Wiktionary, and Wikiquote.
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A.
Wikimedia ecosystem
The Wikimedia ecosystem is the interconnected network of free knowledge projects, communities, and infrastructure coordinated by the Wikimedia Foundation, including Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and related initiatives.
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B.
Wikimedia Incubator
Wikimedia Incubator is a Wikimedia Foundation platform where new language editions of Wikimedia projects are developed and tested before becoming independent sites.
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C.
Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation is a nonprofit organization that hosts and supports Wikipedia and other free-knowledge projects worldwide.
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D.
Wikimedia Deutschland
Wikimedia Deutschland is the German chapter of the Wikimedia movement, a nonprofit organization that supports free knowledge projects such as Wikipedia through community, technical, and educational initiatives in Germany.
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E.
Wikimedia Commons
Wikimedia Commons is a free, collaboratively curated online repository of images, audio, video, and other media files that can be used across Wikimedia projects and beyond.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (66)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
server infrastructure
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web server cluster ⓘ |
| designGoal |
resilience to hardware failures
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serve high read traffic ⓘ support collaborative editing ⓘ |
| documentationAt |
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/
ⓘ
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_infrastructure ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
geographically distributed
ⓘ
high availability ⓘ open-source software based ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Wikimedia Foundation ⓘ |
| monitoredBy | Wikimedia observability stack ⓘ |
| networkRoleIncludes |
CI infrastructure
ⓘ
DNS server ⓘ analytics cluster ⓘ application server ⓘ bastion host ⓘ database server ⓘ edge cache ⓘ load balancer ⓘ logging infrastructure ⓘ mail server ⓘ search backend ⓘ storage backend ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
Site Reliability Engineering team
ⓘ
linked to:
DevOps
|
| ownedBy | Wikimedia Foundation ⓘ |
| primaryTrafficRegion | global ⓘ |
| securityPracticeIncludes |
access control via SSH keys
ⓘ
monitoring and alerting ⓘ regular security updates ⓘ |
| softwareStackIncludes |
Apache HTTP Server
ⓘ
Ceph (historical or experimental) ⓘ
linked to:
Red Hat Ceph Storage
ElasticSearch ⓘ
linked to:
Elasticsearch
Kafka ⓘ MariaDB ⓘ MediaWiki ⓘ Memcached ⓘ Nginx ⓘ
linked to:
nginx
Redis ⓘ Swift object storage ⓘ
linked to:
OpenStack Swift
Varnish ⓘ |
| supportsProject | free knowledge dissemination ⓘ |
| supportsProtocol |
DNS
ⓘ
HTTP ⓘ HTTPS ⓘ SMTP ⓘ TLS ⓘ |
| usedFor |
caching web content
ⓘ
hosting Meta-Wiki ⓘ hosting Wikibooks ⓘ hosting Wikidata ⓘ hosting Wikimedia Commons ⓘ hosting Wikinews ⓘ hosting Wikipedia ⓘ hosting Wikiquote ⓘ hosting Wikisource ⓘ hosting Wikiversity ⓘ hosting Wikivoyage ⓘ hosting Wiktionary ⓘ hosting mediawiki.org ⓘ serving API requests ⓘ storing file uploads ⓘ storing page revisions ⓘ storing user accounts ⓘ |
| usesOperatingSystem |
Debian GNU/Linux
ⓘ
linked to:
Debian
Linux ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Wikimedia servers Description of subject: Wikimedia servers are the global infrastructure of computers and data centers that store, process, and deliver content for Wikimedia Foundation projects such as Wikipedia, Wiktionary, and Wikiquote.
Referenced by (56)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Product and Technology Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
→
focusesOn
→
Wikimedia technical operations
ⓘ
linked to: Wikimedia servers
linked to: Wikimedia servers
linked to: Wikimedia servers
linked to: Wikimedia servers