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.
+10^100
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 6:22 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.
_______________________________________________
Mobile-l mailing list
Mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l
_______________________________________________
Mobile-l mailing list
Mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org