Ryan,
*I definitely agree that the Automatic taxobox needs a better user
interface - that is the biggest obstacle to it's adoption. Right now there is a significant learning curve to being able to use it. I would support a project to improve the user interface of the existing Automatic taxobox,*
Thanks a ton for clearing that out. I will know what to put in the proposal then.
*but frankly I don't see much value in using NLP to populate the data. In fact, I would hesitate to automatically populate any of the data for any taxobox from article content. The taxonomy in Wikipedia articles is notoriously unreliable and outdated and very frequently contradictory. Just look through the mess we have in our Zebra articles and you'll see what I mean. And if we can't get Zebras right, imagine what our taxonomy is like for arthropods!* So what you are suggesting is that you want us to generate the taxonomy using other sites? Wiki = Unreliable?
Cheers, Ashwin