I think from an ergonomic standpoint it would be helpful to treat "descriptions" as "comments". In the case of something from Wikipedia there is a link to Wikipedia and that helps.
For objects where curators and users need to know what this object is, what gotchas are associated with using it, etc, such a facility would be necessary.
Some standard should exist for "auto-generated descriptions" to be considered good enough, but for records like
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4876286
there ought to be some kind of red mark to say this record is thinner then we like. If somebody has a problem with that situation they ought to add enough data to autogenerate a description better than
Exists(something): something has label "Beanie Babies 2.0" in the English Language
hopefully the community can improve the database in terms of where their needs are.
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 6:18 AM, Thomas Douillard < thomas.douillard@gmail.com> wrote:
I also started a lua module on frwiki in the same spirit for on wiki without gadgets description generation: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Description . It's used in the "Lien Wikidata" template, but it's unclear wether or not Wikipedians in frwiki will catch the bait :)
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