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== Why QAWiki? ==

Knowledge bases like Wikidata offer a wealth of knowledge that users (in theory) can use to answer all sorts of interesting questions/queries. But in order to take advantage of this power, users must typically have expertise on query languages like SPARQL, which excludes a lot of people. If we could build good ''Question Answering'' (''QA'') systems that directly answer a user's question expressed in the (natural) language they speak, this could bring the benefits of Wikidata to a much wider audience. And with advances in ''Deep Learning'', such a system is within reach. The main obstacle is the need for data to train such systems. While some public QA datasets do exist, they are static, may have errors, may lack diversity (being automatically generated), etc. (Probably the best QA datasets are proprietary, used internally by companies to build applications like Alexa, Siri, etc.)

The main goal of QAWiki is then to offer a platform for a rich and open QA dataset to be built collaboratively: a dataset that captures the interests of diverse users, being vetted, extended and improved by the community, and being made openly available for the community to use. (QAWiki data are licensed under [https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ CC0].)