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notoriously unreliable and outdated and very frequently contradictory.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