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Key information is most visible as the contents of an infobox. Often the prose of
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Wikidata in Knowledge which everyone desired from early development is "query at the intersection of categories". Suppose that someone wanted to see a list of all the Knowledge articles which are "biographies" of "rulers" who are "female" and "lived in the 1800s". Plain text search
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The current best practice for determining whether something is key information is whether a field is already in an infobox. Not all key information is in infoboxes, but much is. Anyone can make an argument that some additional information is key by making the case that readers will not understand a
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Knowledge decides what "key information" is when the Knowledge community publishes an infobox. The content of any Knowledge infobox is the set of "key information" for that concept. The set of possible fields within a class of Knowledge infoboxes is the key information for
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which cover a topic will omit presenting key information on the assumption that their anticipated audience already knows the information or has trivial access to it. Because
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Wikidata has innumerable functions. The best way to describe it is as a generational change in technology. Just as in the 1990s most of the world did not understand what the World Wide Web was, and how in the 2000s people had trouble understanding social media, and in the 2010s the world came to
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Knowledge's origin is as a prose encyclopedia. It contained "unstructured data", which meant that humans could write freely with any sort of human language they liked. The advantage of this is that human writing has been more enjoyable for humans to read than machine-written information with the
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To understand an organization, it is necessary to know its approximate budget and number of employees. Without this information the other information in a
Knowledge article about a company may not even indicate whether it is a small organization with a few employees or a large organization with
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Knowledge is a statement of a person's nationality and at least approximate year of birth. A biography of a person born in India in the 1800s may assume that readers know when and where a person lived. In Knowledge, however, the global audience may be totally
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Knowledge for may not immediately list "Jhansi ki Rani". Wikidata, however, can return this information instantly. This kind of data discovery depends not only in the entirety of data about a concept, but also on the human curation of the smaller set of data which is key.
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There is currently no objective way to determine what sorts of facts are key information. A theoretical objective method would be to determine if common practice is to include certain facts in similar articles, but right now, Knowledge has trouble detecting this at scale.
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To understand a biography, it is necessary to know approximately when and where a person lived. Typical reliable sources may not explicitly indicate a person's residence or the decades in which they were active. Without key information other information loses cultural
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currently available technology. Disadvantages of using human-written information is that robots are capable of writing and sorting information much more quickly than humans and also that robots can support human collaboration in many ways if text is machine readable.
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unfamiliar with the topic, and have no idea about the country or time when they lived. When a biography omits the basic details but goes on to present a person's life, then for key information, Knowledge editors may do a minimal amount of
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Wikidata and the 2019 establishment of the Schema namespace in Wikidata will lead to greater insight into the content gaps in all languages of Wikipedias, particularly around key information.
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