Property Label Stability in Wikidata: Evolution and Convergence of Schemas in Collaborative Knowledge Bases
Published in Wiki Workshop at the Web Conference, 2018
Recommended citation: Pellissier Tanon, T., & Kaffee, L. A. (2018, April). Property Label Stability in Wikidata: Evolution and Convergence of Schemas in Collaborative Knowledge Bases. In Companion of the The Web Conference 2018 on The Web Conference 2018 (pp. 1801-1803). International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee. http://wikiworkshop.org/2018/papers/wikiworkshop2018_paper_10.pdf
Stability in Wikidata’s schema is essential for the reuse of its data. In this paper, we analyze the stability of the data based on the changes in labels of properties in six languages. We find that the schema is overall stable, making it a reliable resource for external usage.