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@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@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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