Hi Gerard,
your blog post got me thinking about designing a Wikidata fact checking
tool. The idea would be to rank facts to be checked by a human by some
combination of a fact importance score and a fact uncertainty score. Do you
know of any work that has already been done in this space? Do you think
such a tool would be used? What are the current systems for quality control
in Wikidata?
As an aside, estimating fact uncertainty may reduce to estimating Wikidata
quality as a whole.
Best,
Ellery
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 11:24 PM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com
wrote:
Hoi,
There is a lot of knowledge on quality in online databases. It is known
that all of them have a certain error rate. This is true for Wikidata as
much as any other source.
My question is: is there a way to track Wikidata quality improvements over
time. One approach I blogged about [1]. It is however only an approach to
improve quality not an approach to determine quality and track the
improvement of quality.
The good news is that there are many dumps of Wikidata so it is possible
to compare current Wikidata with how it was in the past.
Would this be something that makes sense to get into for Wikimedia
research. particularly in the light of Wikidata becoming more easily
available to Wikipedia?
Thanks,
GerardM
[1]
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2015/08/wikidata-quality-probability-and…
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