On 9 February 2015 at 10:41, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
Manual descriptions are, in the vast majority of cases, a waste of volunteer time. Alternative: http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=265
Why not make that part of the Wikidata game?
You could show the proposed description and the article lede, in the user's preferred language, then offer options to:
* Accept the prosed description * Edit the proposed description, then save it * reject the proposed description and skip to the next article
For "en" users, you could add a check-box to "also save the proposed description to "simple".