> A few years ago the WMF did a survey of former editors, partly to
> learn why they'd left. One of the most common responses was "I haven't left
> yet".
With the benefit of hindsight (a wonderful thing), that might be a bad way to
have asked the question. A better way might have been to ask wh
I know that I was recruited to Wikipedia from then-competitor everything2,
it would be interesting to find active users who joined during E2's
precipitous decline, match their accounts and compare editing styles.
cheers
stuart
On Tuesday, March 21, 2017, WereSpielChequers
wrote:
> Dear Jan,
>
>
Hoi,
You are conflating two things that are not related. ORES is really helpful
and there is plenty of room for it to function extremely well on Wikidata.
Yes, ORES will do good things for Wikidata but it is separated from the
proposed item quality.
When an item is created because of the existence
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
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
t
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 10:03 AM, Gerard Meijssen
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
Hoi,
When you consider the "collaroborative dimension", it is utterly different
for Wikidata. An example: I just added a few statements to Dorothy Tarrant
[1].For several of those statements I added hundreds of similar statements
on other items. In order to add the award I had to add the award firs
Hi GerardM
I don’t know if I am one of the researchers you mention in your email, but I
have indeed carried out research around Wikidata quality and still am.
I asked the community to help me gather different point of views over what data
quality means on Wikidata in a RfC a couple of months ago
