Agree it is an interesting question. One would need to clearly define what you mean by an "error" though.
Simple vandalism is a relatively easy category to look at but otherwise it is complicated. One has: 1) Unreffed stuff for which one can find a supporting source 2) Text that is partly supported by the source provided 3) Stuff well supported by a poor quality source 4) Stuff that is out of date but supported by an older source 5) Stuff that is controversial with different high quality sources coming to different opinions The better question might be: 1) What percentage of the sources used by Wikipedia are of "high quality"? Might be somewhat less difficult to define if done within a specific area of expertise. 2) If one looks at X number of statements on WP what percentage are well supported by the reference associated with them. Maybe this could be grade as not supported at all, partly supported, mostly supported, completely supported. This has been on my list of things to study for some time. But happy to see someone run with it. James On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 6:08 PM, John Erling Blad <jeb...@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.meijs...@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 <jeb...@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. > > > > > > John > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > > wiki/Wikimedia-l > > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
