On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 11:19 AM, David Cuenca dacuetu@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for the stats, Gerard. Two thoughts:
- With so many items without description I wonder why we don't have the
automatic descriptions gadget enabled by default.
I am a bit worried about enabling this by default for everyone as a gadget. We need the descriptions in a lot of places where people search for items. The next big one will be Commons. But _a lot_ more will come in the future. Think for example of tagging your blog post on Wordpress with Wikidata concepts. You'll need the descriptions. If we enable automatic descriptions on Wikidata now we will actively discourage people from entering more descriptions. That would be bad as 3rd parties then don't get the benefit of them. I am also hesitant to build this into Wikibase directly as it'd need quite some domain-knowledge for all I can tell at this point. That's something we need to avoid. Anyone got ideas how to get out of this?
Cheers Lydia