In my experience, the problems highlighted here (e.g. lack of coverage,
consistency, and/or accuracy) are typical of collaborative data projects
such as Wikidata and Wikipedia. Using Wikidata and the likes to power
entity-oriented applications automatically is always challenging. But I
guess the lack of constraints is also one of the main reasons why those
projects are successful :)
@Darren: can you elaborate on "I wondered if anyone else is actively
working on fleshing out the company data within Wikidata?".
I guess most edits are manually made by individual editors based on
personal interest.
And dataset imports are typically both small-scale and specific, like this
recent project to import video games companies:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Dataset_Imports/Video_Game_Companies
Cheers.
-N.
On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 9:27 AM Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Darren Cook, 23/01/19 12:07:
I wondered if anyone else is actively working on
fleshing out the
company data within Wikidata?
There's also
<
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Organizations#Where_to_p…
.
What always puzzles me is that Wikidata has tons of details about
entities but almost nothing when it comes to the basics, such as
revenues/budget and number of employees, the kind of information which
is most often updated in infoboxes.
Federico
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