Wikidata is a free, collaborative knowledge base created and boosted by Wikimedia Deutschland, and developed by a large community of volunteers all over the world. After almost 4 years, Wikidata has a community of 16 thousand active editors that has managed to create a knowledge graph with 20+ million notorious entities. Among these entities, we can find not only people, locations and things such as films, and music albums, but also biological data and bibliographic metadata. Wikidata’s content is used by Wikipedia, Google’s Knowledge Graph and many other systems that benefit from open, multilingual structured data. The goal of this talk is twofold: first, I will introduce Wikidata . Second, I will present the work that we have recently done to understand the editing behaviour of Wikidata Editors.
Cristina Sarasua is a computer scientist and PhD researcher at WeST, the Institute for Web Science and Technologies at Universität Koblenz-Landau in Germany. Her PhD explores microtask crowdsourcing techniques to the problem of data interlinking on the Web of Data.
University of Nottingham School of Computer Science Nottingham, NG8 1BB
email: mrl@cs.nott.ac.uk