Hello John,
Article quality is an interesting subject. I guess that it depends extremely on what is the scientific discipline you come from, and what questions you want to be answered. A linguist will have a very different approach than a computer scientist, for example. If you ask me, only a human being can judge an article if it comes to content quality and textual quality, by the way. Maybe you want to elaborate on what are your questions?
Kind regards Ziko
2017-04-16 9:44 GMT+02:00 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com:
Hoi, How can you check for consistency when you are not able to appreciate if certain facts (like date of death) exist and are the same? What can you say about sources when some Wikipedias insist on sources in their own language and sources in other languages you cannot read? How do you check for consistency when we have over 280 Wikipedias with possible content?
Do know that only Wikidata approaches a state where it knows about all our projects and we have not, to the best of my knowledge, assessed what the quality of Wikidata is on interwiki links.. Case in point, I fixed an error today about a person that was said to be dead because a Commons category was not correctly linked.
When you study the consistency of English Wikipedia only, you only add to the current bias in research.
When you want to know about the half life of an error, you can find in the history when for instance a date was mentioned for a first time and find the same date in another language. This is not trivial as the format of a language is diverse think Thai for instance. Thanks, GerardM
On 16 April 2017 at 02:08, John Erling Blad jeblad@gmail.com wrote:
This is more about checking consistency between projects. It is interesting, but not quite what I was asking about. It is very
interesting
if it would be possible to say something about half-life of an error. I'm pretty sure this follows number of page views if ordinary logged-in
editing
is removed.
On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 12:08 AM, Gerard Meijssen < gerard.meijssen@gmail.com
wrote:
Hoi, Would checking if a date of death exists in articles be of interest to
you.
The idea is that Wikidata knows about dates of death and for "living people" the fact of a death should be the same in all projects. When
the
date of death is missing, there is either an issue at Wikidata (not the same precision is one) or at a project.
When a difference is found, the idea is that it is each projects responsibility to do what is needed. No further automation. Thanks, GerardM
On 15 April 2017 at 23:50, John Erling Blad jeblad@gmail.com wrote:
Are anyone doing any work on automated quality assurance of articles?
Not
the ORES-stuff, that is about creating hints from measured features.
I'm
thinking about verifying existence and completeness of citations, and structure of logical arguments.
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