| ChristianKl added a comment. |
Currently quite a lot of the existing descriptions on Wikidata are bot created.
From pressing a few times on Random Item:
Q19410337 -> "street in Dongen, the Netherlands"
The bot User:RobotMichiel1972 that created this item put description in Dutch and in English. Automatic fallback description in other languages in the same format would be useful.
Q899453 Halve of the claims are created by https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:JhsBot and https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Dexbot .
There are currently many music albums that don't have descriptions. I find it unlikely that humans want to write the descriptions for them. When using the search functions the fact that it's not immediately clear that those are music albums can create problems when their names are also used in other contexts.
It's not easily visible for a user that those claims are bot created. If automatic description fallbacks would be shown in a similar way as language fallbacks are shown, it would make it clear that the existing description are only bot created.
The goal doesn't have to be to show why an item is important. It's simply about describing the item.
Let's say I'm searching for an item that's called "winner". There are two item that represent music singles with Q8025588 and Q2104521. If an autogenerated description would tell me that they are music singles I would know that they aren't what I'm looking for and a bit later in the list I find Q18560095 that corresponds to the winner property. If it would show me "subclass of person" as a description for the Q18560095 I could easily find it even through it's the 18th hit in the list and those two music single came before it.
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