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Wikidata has a tons of data and we need to help the editors keep its quality high. One type of data that hints at potential errors in the data are outliers and similar anomalies. However they might also be a hint at something really curious happening in the world. One such outlier is the woman who married the Eiffel Tower. It’s hard for a machine to automatically judge if it is an error in the data or a real curiosity but our editors can. We want to surface these anomalies to editors to either entertain/educate or get them fixed. Reference doc: [[ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yNo5TK0l_uFTlT-_nIkPKzG11u9SkB7e-lg2pJDu6PE/edit | Qurator: The Wikidata Curious Facts Project ]] Maybe will turn it into a self-serve tool on labs or so? But that comes later.

Wikidata has a tons of data and we need to help the editors keep its quality high. One type of data that hints at potential errors in the data are outliers and similar anomalies. However they might also be a hint at something really curious happening in the world. One such outlier is the woman who married the Eiffel Tower. It’s hard for a machine to automatically judge if it is an error in the data or a real curiosity but our editors can. We want to surface these anomalies to editors to either entertain/educate or get them fixed. Reference doc: [[ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yNo5TK0l_uFTlT-_nIkPKzG11u9SkB7e-lg2pJDu6PE/edit | Qurator: The Wikidata Curious Facts Project ]] Maybe will turn it into a self-serve tool on labs or so? But that comes later. **Reporting:** end of January 2021.

Wikidata has a tons of data and we need to help the editors keep its quality high. One type of data that hints at potential errors in the data are outliers and similar anomalies. However they might also be a hint at something really curious happening in the world. One such outlier is the woman who married the Eiffel Tower. It’s hard for a machine to automatically judge if it is an error in the data or a real curiosity but our editors can. We want to surface these anomalies to editors to either entertain/educate or get them fixed. Reference doc: [[ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yNo5TK0l_uFTlT-_nIkPKzG11u9SkB7e-lg2pJDu6PE/edit | Qurator: The Wikidata Curious Facts Project ]] Maybe will turn it into a self-serve tool on labs or so? But that comes later. **Reporting:** end of January 2021.