Ah, but when auto-descriptions get better, how do we know which should be updated, and which have been "improved" bu humans? Because people will screem bloody murder if we replace "their" descriptions with automatic ones, even if those are better.
On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 7:53 AM Jane Darnell jane023@gmail.com wrote:
Yes but even if the descriptions were just the contents of fields separated by a pipe it would be better than nothing. This could be a prompt to make a game that offers to update the description with an auto-generated text. So for a Monet painting, the description could be "creator Monet|instance painting". We have over 100,000 paintings on Wikidata thanks to the Sum of all Paintings project (yay!) and most museums only have titles in the language it was created in and the language of the museum, so we are a looooong way from creating meaningful titles for all of these and meaningful short descriptions would be a real benefit to the project.
On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 8:38 AM, Lydia Pintscher < lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de> wrote:
On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 3:43 AM, Dan Garry dgarry@wikimedia.org wrote:
I've seen arguments on both sides here. Some say automatically generated descriptions are not good enough. Some say they are. Why don't we gather some data on this and use that to decide what's right? :-)
Please do. Especially pay attention to languages other than English though. Because even if we get algorithms to write good descriptions for English are we going to do the same for all the other languages? Especially those where grammar is tricky and Wikidata doesn't even have the necessary information to make the grammar right? The other tricky side is determining why something is actually notable. That's not a trivial thing to determine based on the data we have.
Cheers Lydia
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