On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Nikola Smolenski <smolensk(a)eunet.rs> wrote:
On 18/10/12 09:25, Steven Walling wrote:
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> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:46 PM, Nikola Smolenski<smolensk(a)eunet.rs>
> wrote:
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>> The need for such bots should cease after Wikidata is fully deployed. I
>> suggest to interested programmers that they should direct their effort
>> there.
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>
> 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.