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 Smolenskismolensk@eunet.rs:
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?
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.