So it turns out that ValterVBot alone has created
over 1.8 MILLION
"manual" descriptions. And there are other bots that do this. We already
HAVE automatic descriptions, we just store them in the "manual" field.
The worst of both worlds.
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 9:24 AM Magnus Manske <
magnusmanske(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 1:43 AM Monte Hurd
<mhurd(a)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.