DIRT maintains accuracy at scale because every contributor needs to deposit tokens to write data. If the data is correct, it is freely shared. If the data is incorrect, anyone can challenge the data and earn tokens for identifying these inaccurate facts. Our protocol and platform makes it economically irrational for misinformation to persist in a data set.
But Wikidata’s designers — and those that do the work of connecting Wikidata’s stream of facts to the tools editors use in building Wikipedia itself — have a responsibility to ensure that it remains as easy to disagree with the consensus view as it is to go along with it.