Templates can also be coded in lua, which is comparable to javascript in expressivity. It's not so hard to code a generic lua template that could act as reasonator, multilingual and that could be imported into every language versions of Wikipedia.

Here is the interesting thing : this generic version could be, in my proposition, associated to the query "every item", so it is totally compatible. But every wikipedia could also overload the mechanism by associating language specific versions of the template for specific kind on item.

This leads us to the original question of this thread, as every query's results is a subset of the result of the query "every item on WIkidata".

2015-01-02 16:08 GMT+01:00 Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com>:
Hoi,
Absolutely. However, creating functionality that is useful in any language for any subject beats considering templates that are useful for only about one project. Also automated text is something beyond what templates may offer or what Reasonator offers. 

Reasonator and its approach is superior because it provides information on the strength of the available labels and the ability to understand other languages. Templates fall short in every way in that respects.

I am all in favour of understanding what templates are, what queries are, the restrictions in either but I am not willing to consider templates a real solution that works for Wikidata.
Thanks,
      GerardM

On 2 January 2015 at 10:26, Thomas Douillard <thomas.douillard@gmail.com> wrote:
Generated a grammatically correct same meaning sentence in all language in the planet automatically is way more difficult than finding a user that will write a template is his own language.

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