On 17 July 2020 at 23:01 Adam Sobieski <adamsobieski@hotmail.com> wrote:

 

Regarding bots, should Wikidata come to support the expressiveness for statements having both references and derivations, bots could then provide derivations for added statements. Wikidata could verify and/or validate these derivations, ensuring that each step of reasoning was approved by the system admins. This could be a new paradigm for bots and bot-generated content.

Indeed, who knows what the future of Wikidata holds.

My points about this vision:

(a) Giving admins a role excluding others in decisions about content lies rather outside the Wikimedia tradition.

(b) The synthesis issue lies not with the atomic steps, but with concatenations of those.

(c) Bot roles include creation of items from imported data, and editing existing items, the former being much easier. Within what I was calling the "manual", a reference to the Wikipedia Manual of Style, the use case for some such derivation-based additions is clear enough.

Charles