On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Nikola Smolenski smolensk@eunet.rs wrote:
On 18/10/12 09:25, Steven Walling wrote:
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:46 PM, Nikola Smolenskismolensk@eunet.rs wrote:
The need for such bots should cease after Wikidata is fully deployed. I suggest to interested programmers that they should direct their effort there.
Why is that the case?
The necessary data to create those articles will be available in Wikidata, and possibly a lot more than we currently have in our templates. That could make it possible to create really awsome articles, if it were not for one thing - it is extremly hard to create well-formed text automatically. One of the more common problems are names that uses different inflection rules due to context and how they are written. Such inflection rules are not part of the Wikidata project and will probably be a major undertaking in itself.
Note that some languages does not need such inflection rules and then it is fairly simple to create articles from templates. In other cases it might be good enough to simply say "Pygochelidon cyanoleuca is a bird" and add an automatic template.