First example that loaded on "random item": https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6256189
English: Manual description: "American politician". Automatic description: "US-American politician (*1968) ♂" German: Manual description: None. Automatic description: "Vereinigte Staaten Politiker (*1968) ♂" (yes, would need some work on the algorithm, but understandable) https://tools.wmflabs.org/autodesc/?q=Q6256189&lang=de&mode=short&links=text&redlinks=&format=jsonfm On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 11:22 PM Magnus Manske <magnusman...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 9:54 PM Gergo Tisza <gti...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> >> On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Magnus Manske < >> magnusman...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> >>> IMHO the next step is auto-generating short descriptions from the item >>> statements, which will be perfectly fine for the vast majority of cases. >>> >> >> The Wikidata team is not a fan of that idea: T91981 >> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91981> >> >> Yes, sadly. The argument "not good enough" is a fail IMHO, though. If > it's bad, improve the algorithm and/or add statements. If it's still bad, > THEN add a manual description. > > I think the worst possible description is the one that's missing. > > Back-of-the-envelope calculation: > * We have ~45 million manual descriptions at the moment on Wikidata > * We have ~18 million items > * We have ~250 languages > That means that, as of this moment, less than 1% of all possible > descriptions are filled in. And the quality of these manual descriptions is > everyone's best guess; I've seen plenty "disambiguation page" and "category > page", EVEN IS THAT IS NOT TRUE. Some crappy bot filled those in. No chance > of quickly fixing this. > > So, 99% descriptions missing, with little chance of them getting filled in > at all (think: small languages), and a rather dubious track record for the > ones that are. > > It's like letting people drown in the Mediterranean because the tents to > house them temporarily are "not good enough". Frustrating, seriously. >
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