Retrofit Atlas and Wikipedia / Wikidata
Free encyclopedia text (Wikipedia) and free structured data (Wikidata). Category: community site. Audience: Everyone. Site: wikidata.org.
When to use which
Use Wikipedia/Wikidata as the free first look and for identifiers; the Atlas draws on it with attribution and adds per-site outcomes and tiers.
They have, the Atlas does not
- Open licences
- Broad crowd-sourced coverage and citations
- Entity identifiers (Q numbers)
Not found on their public pages
- retrofit outcome per site (imported, unreviewed for most records)
- before/after facts with quoted sources
- the Retrofitting Suburbia taxonomy, used with attribution
- provenance chip per fact
- dated releases with diffs
Neither Wikipedia / Wikidata nor the Atlas has
- Rent rolls
- Live traffic
Public pricing
| Plan | Price | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Both | Free. Wikidata data CC0; Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0 | source |
Coverage, as they state it
| Coverage claim | Source |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia 'Dead mall' article gives examples and no complete list | source |
Sources
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Introduction · read 2026-10-21
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_mall · read 2026-10-21
Facts about Wikipedia / Wikidata are theirs, read on the dates shown; they may have changed since. The Atlas claims are about release 2026-10-21. Corrections: desk@retrofitatlas.org.
All comparisons Why retrofit Atlas API and data
Page generated with the site, release 2026-10-21. Corrections: the form or desk@retrofitatlas.org.