Am 28.09.2015 um 16:54 schrieb Thomas Douillard:
An example that just happened a few minutes ago : I
did this kind of edits
because the claims are wrong :
https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q12191&diff=254099391&ol…
I think I already did this in the past. After a chat with Yamaha5, it appears he
added this to complete a symmetric relations, which means if I just remove the
claim in this item they are likely to come back. But it might be a chain of
works : maybe a robot had imported this from some Wikipedia, then Yamaha
completed the symmetric relation. If I remove the symmetric claims, the robot
might reimport them, so ... with or without inferrences and magic, we will have
to trace the origin of the problem to solve it once and for all.
Yes, bad info coming back via bots is a problem, but often it actually helps to
surface some underlying issue with the data. It's not always easy to find or fix
that underlying problem, but it's possible.
Making individual edits more powerful by adding internal automation (e.g.
removing all "child" statements from a peseron's item would also
"magically"
remove the "parent" statement from the children's items) would not only make
it
easier to fix problems. It would also make mistakes harder to find mistakes, and
it would give vandals a real boost in efficiency.
The Wiki Way is, in some ways, inefficient on purpose. Slow edit processes give
people time for review. It's a bit like democracy in that regard...
dictatorships are a lot more efficient than democracies, but does that make them
better?...
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Daniel Kinzler
Senior Software Developer
Wikimedia Deutschland
Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.