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 <[email protected]
> 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-set.html
>
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