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<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;" aria-level="1"><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Release notes are now maintained in the Databus Collection (</span><a href="https://databus.dbpedia.org/dbpedia/collections/dbpedia-snapshot-2021-09" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">https://databus.dbpedia.org/dbpedia/collections/dbpedia-snapshot-2021-09</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">)</span></h2></li>
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<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;" aria-level="1"><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Work in progress: Smoothing the community issue reporting and fixing at Github (</span><a href="https://github.com/dbpedia/extraction-framework/issues/new/choose" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">https://github.com/dbpedia/extraction-framework/issues/new/choose</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">)</span></h2></li>
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style="line-height:1.38;background-color:#ffffff;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Historically, this release has been associated with many names: "DBpedia Core", "EN DBpedia", and — most confusingly — just "DBpedia". In fact, it is a combination of —</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Given the timeline above, the </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">EN Wikipedia</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> data of DBpedia Snapshot has a lag of 1-4 months.</span></p>
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