We were talking about this on IRC. Items mature from an empty item to a featured item of time Some tools work really well on baby items, but completely mess up mature items
Like for example using petscan to get some initial statements to sort things out works really well, but if you do those edits on already filled items you'll probably mess things up
So if you expose the maturity in a way it can be used to query and filter, tools can focus on the right items to work on
So you could just setup a query like https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Multichill/Empty_items_with_Dutch_label to find not very mature items in a certain field
A possible technical implementation would be to measure it, say scale from 0 (empty) to 100 (most mature item) and store it in the page_props table. That also exposes it in SPARQL
ORES could and should probably be used to do the actual scoring.
We already try to do this in different ways, for example with the paintings:
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_sum_of_all_paintings/Possible_paintings empty baby items
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_sum_of_all_paintings/Wiki_monitor very infant items
- All sorts of reports spread all over the place to improve certain aspects