On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 1:43 AM Monte Hurd mhurd@wikimedia.org wrote:
True about algorithms never being finished, but aren't we essentially "stuck" with the first run output, unless I misunderstand how you envision this working?
(assuming you don't want to over-write non-blank descriptions the next time you improve and re-run the process)
Of course we're not "stuck" with the initial automatic descriptions! Whatever gave you that idea? Ideally, each description would be computed on-the-fly, but that won't scale; output needs to be cached, and invalidated when necessary.
Possible reasons for cache invalidation: * The item statements have changed * Items referenced in the description (e.g. country for nationality) have changed * The algorithm has been improved * After cache reached a certain age, just to make sure
This is why the automatic description cache and the manual description need to be kept separate; just "pasting" the autodesc into the manual description field would mean it could never be updated automatically. That would be very bad indeed.