On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 4:25 PM, Markus Krötzsch < mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org> wrote:
> On 21.02.2016 20:37, Tom Morris wrote: > >> On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 11:41 AM, Markus Krötzsch >> <mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org <mailto:mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org>> >> wrote: >> >> On 18.02.2016 15:59, Lydia Pintscher wrote: >> >> Thomas, Denny, Sebastian, Thomas, and I have published a paper >> which was >> accepted for the industry track at WWW 2016. It covers the >> migration >> from Freebase to Wikidata. You can now read it here: >> http://research.google.com/pubs/archive/44818.pdf >> >> Is it possible that you have actually used the flawed statistics >> from the Wikidata main page regarding the size of the project? 14.5M >> items in Aug 2015 seems far too low a number. Our RDF exports from >> mid August already contained more than 18.4M items. It would be nice >> to get this fixed at some point. There are currently almost 20M >> items, and the main page still shows only 16.5M. >> >> Numbers are off throughout the paper. They also quote 48M instead of >> 58M topics for Freebase and mischaracterize some other key points. They >> key number is that 3.2 billion facts for 58 million topics has generated >> 106,220 new statements for Wikidata. If my calculator had more decimal >> places, I could tell you what percentage that is. >> > > Obviously, any tool can only import statements for which we have items and > properties at all, so the number of importable facts is much lower. Obviously, but "much lower" from 3.2B is probably something like 50M-300M, not 0.1M. Tom
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