Hi Gerard, On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 3:58 AM Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi, > I have found consistently that many of the links in Wikipedia are to false > friends. This happens particularly in lists. Given that many lists are > imported into Wikidata as they are, typically both projects share the same > errors. For the list for awardees of the Polk award, I have scrutinised the > data, blogged and tweeted about this phenomenon. This is very much in scope > of this research project. > Sounds interesting, please could you please provide some links? > > What I have regularly proposed is to link blue and red links to Wikidata > items. This will have a similar impact as the effect of linking interwiki > links in Wikidata in stead of native links in the Wikipedias. Additionally > this enables another type of research; inconsistencies between Wikipedias. > Yes, I agree with the general idea. In fact, using Wikidata as a pivot to understand inconsistencies across different Wikipedias is the next step for this project. Thanks, Diego > Thanks, > GerardM > > On Fri, 22 May 2020 at 23:47, Diego Saez-Trumper <di...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > The Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation has officially started a > > new Formal Collaboration > > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Formal_collaborations > > > > with the *Institute of Basic Science* (IBS) from South Korea to work > > collaboratively on *Discovering content inconsistencies between > > Wikidata and Wikipedia * > > < > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Discovering_content_inconsistencies_between_Wikidata_and_Wikipedia > > > > > as part of the *Knowledge Integrity program* > > <https://research.wikimedia.org/knowledge-integrity.html>. > > > > Here are a few pieces of information about this collaboration that we > > would like to share with you: > > > > * We aim to keep the research documentation for this project in the > > corresponding research page on meta > > < > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Discovering_content_inconsistencies_between_Wikidata_and_Wikipedia > > >. > > * Meeyoung Cha from IBS & KAIST and her collaborators Cheng-Te Li and > > Yi-Ju Lu from the National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan) and Jing Ma > > from Hong Kong Baptist University, will be contributing to this > > project. We are thankful to them for agreeing to spend their time and > > expertise on this project in the coming 3 months and to those of you > > who have already worked with us as we were shaping the proposal for > > this project and are planning to continue your contributions to this > > program. > > * I act as the point of contact for this research in the Wikimedia > > Foundation. Please feel free to reach out to me (directly, if it > > cannot be shared publicly) if you have comments or questions about the > > project. > > > > Best, > > > > > > *Diego Sáez TrumperResearch Scientist > > User:Diego_(WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Diego_(WMF)> * > > _______________________________________________ > > Wiki-research-l mailing list > > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
