Can we try displaying them but marking them in some way?
eg/ "[German person 1885-1952]" for an automatic description, "German mechanical engineer, 1885-1952" for a human-written one - depending on how and where they're shown in the interface we could also try italicising them, using a lighter shade of text, or something else to mark them out a bit.
Using square brackets is a relatively accepted marking for hypothetical or interpolated information, and would serve to indicate that this is automatically generated and could be wrong. If we want to be more aggressive about it, we could add question marks - "[German person 1885-1952?]" would make it even clearer it's provisional.
Andrew.
On 19 August 2014 15:13, Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de wrote:
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
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