On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 9:54 PM Gergo Tisza <gtisza@wikimedia.org> wrote:

On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Magnus Manske <magnusmanske@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 

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.

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