On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 8:15 AM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hoi,
I have seen the statistics. The quality of Freebase cannot be understood by
simply looking at the problems. People have been looking for problems and
been identifying them. As a consequence more data ended up in the error
bucket than in the good bucket. I have for instance added a lot of
statements as "wrong" because they were exactly the same as the value
already present. Consequently the error rate is not representative.
Denny, I have a suggestion. It is backed by math, it is backed by how people
think. All the arguments are on my side. I have not heard your arguments and
the "primary sources tool" was announced as a good thing and the community
never agreed to having it. So leave the community out of it and focus on
arguments.
why would someone work on data in the primary sources tool when it is more
effective to add data directly
There are several reasons. My personal reasons for using it: It is
more convenient for me and I have more security that what I am putting
into Wikidata is actually useful and correct.
why is data that is over 90% good denied access to
Wikidata (ie as good as
Wikidata itself)
Do you have any way to back up this 90% claim?
how do you justify the pst when so little data was
included in Wikidata
pst?
why not have Kian learn from the data set of Freebase
and Wikidata and have
smart suggestions
No-one is preventing that.
why waste people's time adding one item/statement
at a time when you can
focus on the statements that are in doubt (either in Freebase or in Wikidata
You consider it wasting people's time. Please recognize that other
people do not consider it wasting their time.
The notion of having all new data go through the
primary sources tool will
see me leave the project when this is realised. I will feel that my time and
intelligence is wasted.
No-one said all new data should go through it as far as I know. I do
want it to be a major part of our workflows but that is not the same
thing as not allowing anything else.
Cheers
Lydia
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