DBpedia began in 2007 as an effort to extract structured data from Wikipedia infoboxes. It has since grown significantly, with over 6.6 million things and 14 billion triples in its 2017 release. The DBpedia community meets worldwide and a non-profit association was formed to govern the project. The idea of extracting data from Wikipedia and the pattern of distributing work between community contributors and users has proven successful for DBpedia and influenced other knowledge graphs like Google's and Bing's. The document suggests knowledge graphs could also be applied to representing scientific knowledge but more work is needed to address challenges in that domain.