Only using sitelinks as a weak indication of quality seems correct to me.
Also the idea that some languages are more important than other, and some
large languages are more important than other. I would really like it if
the reasoning behind the classes and the features could be spelled out.

I have serious issues with the ORES training sets, but that is another
discussion. ;/ (There is a lot of similar bot edits in the sets, and that
will train a bot-detector, which is not what we need! Grumpf…)

On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 3:33 PM, Aaron Halfaker <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hey wiki-research-l folks,
>
> Gerard didn't actually link you to the quality criteria he takes issue
> with.  See https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Item_quality  I think
> Gerard's argument basically boils down to Wikidata != Wikipedia, but it's
> unclear how that is relevant to the goal of measuring the quality of
> items.  This is something I've been talking to Lydia about for a long
> time.  It's been great for the few Wikis where we have models deployed in
> ORES[1] (English, French, and Russian Wikipedia).  So we'd like to have the
> same for Wikidata.   As Lydia said, we do all sorts of fascinating things
> with a model like this.  Honestly, I think the criteria is coming together
> quite nicely and we're just starting a pilot labeling campaign to work
> through a set of issues before starting the primary labeling drive.
>
> 1. https://ores.wikimedia.org
>
> -Aaron
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 6:39 AM, Gerard Meijssen <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hoi,
>> What I have read is that it will be individual items that are graded. That
>> is not what helps you determine what items are lacking in something. When
>> you want to determine if something is lacking you need a relational
>> approach. When you approach a award like this one [1], it was added to
>> make
>> the award for a person [2] more complete. No real importance is given to
>> this award, just a few more people were added because they are part of a
>> group that gets more attention from me [3]. For yet another award [4], I
>> added all the people who received the award because I was told by
>> someone's
>> expert opinion that they were all notable (in the Wikipedia sense of the
>> word). I added several of these people in Wikidata. Arguably, the Wikidata
>> the quality for the item for the award is great but it has no article
>> associated to it in Wikipedia but that has nothing to do with the quality
>> of the information it provides. It is easy and obvious to recognise in one
>> level deeper that quality issues arise; the info for several people is
>> meagre at best.You cannot deny their relevance though; removing them
>> destroys the quality for the award.
>>
>> The point is that in relations you can describe quality, in the grading
>> that is proposed there is nothing really that is actionable.
>>
>> When you add links to the mix, these same links have no bearing on the
>> quality of the Wikidata item. Why would it? Links only become interesting
>> when you compare the statements in Wikidata with the links to other
>> articles in the same Wikipedia. This is not what this approach brings.
>>
>> Really, how will the grades to items make a difference. How will it help
>> us
>> understand that "items relating to railroads are lacking"? It does not.
>>
>> When you want to have indicators for quality; here is one.. an author (and
>> its subclasses) should have a VIAF identifier. An artist with objects in
>> the Getty Museum should have an ULAN number. The lack of such information
>> is actionable. The number of interwiki links is not, the number of
>> statements are not and even references are not that convincing.
>> Thanks,
>>       GerardM
>>
>> [1] https://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?&q=29000734
>> [2] https://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?&q=7315382
>> [3] https://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?&q=3308284
>> [4] https://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?&q=28934266
>>
>> On 22 March 2017 at 11:56, Lydia Pintscher <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 10:03 AM, Gerard Meijssen
>> > <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > > In your reply I find little argument why this approach is useful. I do
>> > not
>> > > find a result that is actionable. There is little point to this
>> approach
>> > > and it does not fit with well with much of the Wikidata practice.
>> >
>> > Gerard, the outcome will be very actionable. We will have the
>> > groundwork needed to identify individual items and sets of items that
>> > need improvement. If it for example turns out that our items related
>> > to railroads are particularly lacking then that is something we can
>> > concentrate on if we so chose. We can do editathons, data
>> > partnerships, quality drives and and and.
>> >
>> >
>> > Cheers
>> > Lydia
>> >
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>> > Product Manager for Wikidata
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