New subject: [Wikidata] English Wikipedia uses Wikidata for person data

4 Jun 2015

Hoi,
I am not championing Sparkle and other wonderful tools. I am adding data
and i do no longer have the time. While I applaud your work it does not
bring new data like the date of death into Wikidata. It works on the back
of the work of the drones like me who add data. Your work while important
is secondary and therefore your preferences are secondary.

The primary need is to bring quality information to Wikidata. Quality is
not in sources but it is in knowing that there is agreement on the data and
where there is not, only then sources become interesting at this stage or
our game.

I will blog about the relative worth of sources in the near future. At this
time I find it mostly a distraction because we are not working on
comparison of data as long as it is not used to bring quality everwhere it
does not do what I am looking for. It is concentrating on single facts and
not on quality in the first place.
Thanks,
      GerardM

On 4 June 2015 at 10:49, Markus Kroetzsch &lt;markus.kroetzsch(a)tu-dresden.de&gt;
wrote:

...
  Hi Gerard,

 On 04.06.2015 09:26, Gerard Meijssen wrote:

  Hoi,
 An argument rages about the significance of the English WIkipedia using
 Wikidata for person data, things like date of death.

 I don't see an argument raging anywhere, though you seem to be raging
 quite a bit ;-) Maybe you have been discussing elsewhere than on the
 DBpedia or Wikidata mailing lists? (Are the Dutch Wikipedians discussing
 this maybe? If it's not in English, could you give us a summary of the
 issues discussed in this argument?)

 From my point of view, it would be great if DBpedia could donate some of
 its data to Wikidata. For example, there could be a bot that imports "date
 of death" statements from Wikipedia via DBpedia as you suggested. The
 Wikidata community has imported many statements from Wikipedia in the past
 and I don't see a big problem doing this with DBpedia in the middle if
 people feel that this is easier than extracting stuff from Wikipedia right
 away. I think the reason why it is not done is that nobody has prepared and
 proposed such a bot yet. If there is nobody from DBpedia who can help with
 this, maybe the best people to approach would be the bot authors who have
 helped to import all the existing personal data into Wikidata.

 As I wrote in my previous email to the Wikidata list, I would prefer if
 Wikipedia-scraped data (whether from DBpedia or not) would go through the
 primary sources tool, to help Wikidata to get rid of all the "imported from
 Wikipedia" references. But this does not apply to DBpedia specifically in
 any way.

 Anyway, let's not over-dramatise this discussion. If you want to champion
 this work, you could start by doing a simple query against the DBpedia and
 Wikidata SPARQL endpoints to count how many dates of death each of these
 datasets contains right now. The next step would be to use another simple
 query to display the most recent dates of death so as to compare them. This
 could give the community a sense of whether a large-scale bot action, a
 Wikidata game, primary sources, or a simple list of "editing suggestions"
 could be the right tool of getting the missing data into Wikidata.

 Regards,

 Markus

  DBpedia does a better job than Wikidata does and
it does it because they
 not only use dumps to update their information but they also use
 information from RSS. Therefore they do a better job than volunteers
 like myself at Wikidata do.

 In my blogpost [1] I argue for cooperation. My point is very much that
 increasingly I find I do no longer have the time to maintain the data
 for people who died in 2014 or 2015. I have done that the last two years..

 I desperately want to do other things with Wikidata, things that are
 more relevant. PLEASE consider cooperating with the DBpedia people. They
 are part of our ecosystem, they want to share and they want to make
 their data available with our license.
 Thanks,
         GerardM

 [1]

 http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2015/06/english-wikipedia-and-those-who-…

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