Yes I think using WD to look at stuff like dates of death between different languages would be interesting.
J On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 1:44 AM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 <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> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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>