Hoi,
There are many, many items without ANY description. The most important
statement for any item is an indication what that item is about.. ie
instance of or subclass of. With such a statement we can start automating
all kinds of things for that item.
I do not really understand your point. When an item is known for what it
is, it can already have some automated description. When special attention
is to be had for specific types of item, we can make routines that tell it
well in whatever language.
The biggest problem with the standard descriptions is that nobody cares
about them and the quality of them is abysmal and not improving. It does
not cover all our languages. It is imho a serious waste of effort.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 20 August 2015 at 18:03, Paul Houle <ontology2(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I think from an ergonomic standpoint it would be
helpful to treat
"descriptions" as "comments". In the case of something from
Wikipedia
there is a link to Wikipedia and that helps.
For objects where curators and users need to know what this object is,
what gotchas are associated with using it, etc, such a facility would be
necessary.
Some standard should exist for "auto-generated descriptions" to be
considered good enough, but for records like
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4876286
there ought to be some kind of red mark to say this record is thinner then
we like. If somebody has a problem with that situation they ought to add
enough data to autogenerate a description better than
Exists(something): something has label "Beanie Babies 2.0" in the English
Language
hopefully the community can improve the database in terms of where their
needs are.
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 6:18 AM, Thomas Douillard <
thomas.douillard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I also started a lua module on frwiki in the same
spirit for on wiki
without gadgets description generation:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Description . It's used in the
"Lien Wikidata" template, but it's unclear wether or not Wikipedians in
frwiki will catch the bait :)
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