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Wikipedia Infoboxes

Workshop
Date/Time: Tuesday, 5 May 2020 (12-1pm) Venue: LD4-Wikidata Affinity Group - biweekly call Agenda: Notes on Google doc Slides:

Wikipedia, Wikidata, and the gap between
We know how Wikidata structures information. But Wikidata (2012; 2013 rollout on WP) came more than a decade after Wikipedia (2001). The resulting gap in how the two platforms deal with information structure ← WP-WD integration.

The extent of this gap is uneven across different language Wikipedias. The gap is most pronounced on the English Wikipedia, which by 2013 already had 4M+ articles and its own robust norms and practices around information structuring. The gap is less stark in smaller language Wikipedias, some of which have since heavily leveraged Wikidata for growth.

In a nutshell: En-WP tends to pull from WD to supplement its content while prioritising its own reliability policies. Smaller language WP (e.g. Catalan) have more readily leveraged WD to “seed” their content. Brief comparison (2013): Ca-WP had 400,000 articles, in comparison to En-WP’s 4M+.