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[System.Net.ServicePointManager]::Expect100Continue = $false
$uri = 'http://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php'
$useragent = 'PowerShell/3.0 (your@email.address)'
$q = [ordered]@{
    action = 'wbgetentities'
    ids = 'Q11198812'
    format = 'xml'
}
$responsexml = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $uri -Body $q -UserAgent $useragent
$entity = $responsexml.SelectSingleNode('/api/entities/entity[1]')
$label = $entity.SelectSingleNode("labels/label[@language='en']/@value").Value
$description = $entity.SelectSingleNode("descriptions/description[@language='en']/@value").Value
Write-Host $label, 'is a', $description