On 19/10/2018 07:09, Pine W wrote:
I would appreciate clarification what is proposed with
regard to
exposing problematic Wikidata ontology on Wikipedia. If the idea
involves inserting poor-quality information onto English Wikipedia in
order to spur us to fix problems with Wikidata, then I am likely to
oppose it. English Wikipedia is not an endless resource for free labor,
and we have too few skilled and good-faith volunteers to handle our
already enormous scope of work.
You are right, and thankfully this is not what is proposed. The proposal
was to offer people who search for Commons media the (maybe optional)
possibility to find more results by letting the search engine traverse
the "more-general-than" links stored in Wikidata. People have discovered
cases where some of these links are not correct (surprise! it's a wiki
;-), and the suggestion was that such glitches would be fixed with
higher priority if there would be an application relying on it. But even
with some wrong links, the results a searcher would get would still
include mostly useful hits. Also, at least half of the currently
observed problems with this approach would lead to fewer results (e.g.,
dogs would be hard to include automatically to a search for all
mammals), but in such cases the proposed extension would simply do what
the baseline approach (ignoring the links) would do anyway, so service
would not get any worse. Also, the manual workarounds suggested by some
(adding "mammal" to all pictures of some "dog") would be compatible
with
this, so one could do both to improve search experience on both ends.
Best regards,
Markus