Last January 2019, Mariam Farda-Sarbas (FU Berlin), Cristina Sarasua (DDIS, UZH), Claudia Müller-Birn (FU Berlin) and Abraham Bernstein (DDIS, UZH), co-organized a workshop on data quality in Wikidata, hosted at Wikimedia Deutschland. Data growth is more visible than ever before and with this growth trustworthiness of data is becoming a challenge. Wikidata is the central source of structured knowledge for many projects and is developed to be used by anyone anywhere in the world, thus, ensuring data quality is, of utmost importance. Despite development of many methods and tools to improve different dimensions of quality in Wikidata, further efforts are needed to achieve high quality data. One effort in this regard was the workshop “Data Quality Management on Wikidata” which was held on January 18th 2019 at Wikimedia Germany. It brought together scholars interested and working on monitoring and improving data quality on Wikidata as well as members of the Wikidata community.

More details about the workshop can be found in this blogpost.