English:
Manual description: "American politician".
Automatic description: "US-American politician (*1968) ♂"
German:
Manual description: None.
Automatic description: "Vereinigte Staaten Politiker (*1968) ♂" (yes, would
need some work on the algorithm, but understandable)
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 11:22 PM Magnus Manske <magnusmanske(a)googlemail.com>
wrote:
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 9:54 PM Gergo Tisza
<gtisza(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Magnus Manske <
magnusmanske(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
IMHO the next step is auto-generating short
descriptions from the item
statements, which will be perfectly fine for the vast majority of cases.
The Wikidata team is not a fan of that idea: T91981
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91981>
Yes, sadly. The argument "not good enough" is a fail IMHO, though. If
it's bad, improve the algorithm and/or add statements. If it's still bad,
THEN add a manual description.
I think the worst possible description is the one that's missing.
Back-of-the-envelope calculation:
* We have ~45 million manual descriptions at the moment on Wikidata
* We have ~18 million items
* We have ~250 languages
That means that, as of this moment, less than 1% of all possible
descriptions are filled in. And the quality of these manual descriptions is
everyone's best guess; I've seen plenty "disambiguation page" and
"category
page", EVEN IS THAT IS NOT TRUE. Some crappy bot filled those in. No chance
of quickly fixing this.
So, 99% descriptions missing, with little chance of them getting filled in
at all (think: small languages), and a rather dubious track record for the
ones that are.
It's like letting people drown in the Mediterranean because the tents to
house them temporarily are "not good enough". Frustrating, seriously.