Wikidata is one of the world's most important data assets. It is used by search engines, virtual assistants, fact checkers, and in over 800 Wikimedia projects. Wikidata contains 1.65 billion statements about over 116 million data items, edited by nearly 25 thousand editors. Manually checking whether Wikidata statements are supported by references is a slow process that does not scale with size. Given the overall number of statements to check, the collaborative nature of Wikidata, and the fact that referenced documents can change over time, preserving the quality of the references is an onerous process requiring continuous intervention. This paper present ProVe – a tool to assist in the automatic verification and assessment of the quality of the references of Wikidata items.
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Chapter Title
Automatic Verification of References of Wikidata Statements
Authors
Elena Simperl, Odinaldo Rodrigues, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Kholoud Saad Alghamdi, Gabriel Maia Rocha Amaral, Nathan Schneider Gavenski, Jongmo Kim, Miriam Redi, Yiwen Xing, Bohui Zhang, Yihang Zhao
Language
English
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-1010-2.31
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2026
Copyright Information
© 2026 Author(s)
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Metadata License
Book Title
Wikidata e la ricerca. Condividere esperienze / Wikidata and Research. Sharing Experiences
Book Subtitle
Atti del Convegno, Firenze, 5-6 giugno 2025 / Conference proceedings, Florence, 5-6 June 2025
Editors
Elena Marangoni, Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
378
Publication Year
2026
Copyright Information
© 2026 Author(s)
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Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-1010-2
ISBN Print
979-12-215-1009-6
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-1010-2
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
Series E-ISSN
2704-5919