On 18/10/12 14:10, Denny Vrandečić wrote:
For now, we have no plans for Wikidata to create
articles. This would,
in my opinion, meddle too much with the autonomy of the Wikipedia
language projects.
I don't know if I am so bad at explaining things or if this is such a
complex thing to grasp.
No one has ever suggested for Wikidata to create articles. The only
thing suggested was for Wikipedias to display an article-like template
filled with Wikidata data if they have no article on a certain topic,
instead of "Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name"
page they display now.
This would not only not meddle with Wikipedias' autonomies, it would
require active engagement on part of the community in order to create
the templates. If a community doesn't want the articles, they simply
won't create the templates. Yet I believe this will reduce community
tension since most communities don't like bot-created articles so this
seems to be a reasonable compromise.
What will be possible is to facilitate the creation of
such bots, as
some data that might be used for the article might be taken from and
maintained in Wikidata, and the creation of templates that use data
from Wikidata.
Wikidata currently has no plans for creating text using natural
language generation techniques. We would love for someone else to do
this kind of awesome on top of Wikidata.
Natural language generation is not necessary for any of this.
2012/10/18 Nikola Smolenski<smolensk(a)eunet.rs>rs>:
> On 18/10/12 09:25, Steven Walling wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:46 PM, Nikola Smolenski<smolensk(a)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?
>>
>> I didn't understand the scope of Wikidata to include actual creation
>> of articles that don't exist. Only to provide data about topics
>> across projects. Sure, that might be extremely helpful to someone with a
>> bot to populate species articles, but I'm skeptical that Wikidata would
>> or should be creating millions of articles about such things. If you
>> consider something even slightly more controversial than species, such as
>> schools, many projects would not welcome a third party mass-creating pages
>> about a topic that is described in Wikidata.
>
>
> Wikidata won't need to create articles. Rather, if you are trying to see a
> page without an article, Wikipedia will check if an item with appropriate
> name exists in Wikidata and generate the article on the fly if Wikipedia has
> a local article template for this type of article.