Congratulations on a fantastic project and a your acceptance in WWW2016.

Make a great day,
Max Klein ‽ http://notconfusing.com/

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 10:54 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki@gmail.com> wrote:
Lydia Pintscher, 18/02/2016 15:59:
Thomas, Denny, Sebastian, Thomas, and I have published a paper which was
accepted for the industry track at WWW 2016. It covers the migration
from Freebase to Wikidata. You can now read it here:
http://research.google.com/pubs/archive/44818.pdf


 Nice!

> Concluding, in a fairly short amount of time, we have been
> able to provide the Wikidata community with more than
> 14 million new Wikidata statements using a customizable

I must admit that, despite knowing the context, I wasn't able to understand whether this is the number of "mapped"/"translated" statements or the number of statements actually added via the primary sources tool. I assume the latter given paragraph 5.3:

> after removing dupli
> cates and facts already contained in Wikidata, we obtain
> 14 million new statements. If all these statements were
> added to Wikidata, we would see a 21% increase of the num-
> ber of statements in Wikidata.

I was confused about that too. "the [Primary Sources] tool has been
used by more than a hundred users who performed about
90,000 approval or rejection actions. More than 14 million
statements have been uploaded in total."  I think that means that ≤ 90,000 items or statements were added of 14 million available to be add through Primary Sources tool.

Nemo

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