Better to make this 4 statements Instance of :human Sex:male Nationality:germany Date of birth:1885 Date of death:1952 Occupation:engineer
Al these are wikidata properties Joe On 19 Aug 2014 20:47, "Andrew Gray" <andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk> wrote: > Can we try displaying them but marking them in some way? > > eg/ "[German person 1885-1952]" for an automatic description, "German > mechanical engineer, 1885-1952" for a human-written one - depending on > how and where they're shown in the interface we could also try > italicising them, using a lighter shade of text, or something else to > mark them out a bit. > > Using square brackets is a relatively accepted marking for > hypothetical or interpolated information, and would serve to indicate > that this is automatically generated and could be wrong. If we want to > be more aggressive about it, we could add question marks - "[German > person 1885-1952?]" would make it even clearer it's provisional. > > Andrew. > > On 19 August 2014 15:13, Lydia Pintscher <lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de> > wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 11:19 AM, David Cuenca <dacu...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Thanks for the stats, Gerard. Two thoughts: > >> - With so many items without description I wonder why we don't have the > >> automatic descriptions gadget enabled by default. > > > > I am a bit worried about enabling this by default for everyone as a > > gadget. We need the descriptions in a lot of places where people > > search for items. The next big one will be Commons. But _a lot_ more > > will come in the future. Think for example of tagging your blog post > > on Wordpress with Wikidata concepts. You'll need the descriptions. If > > we enable automatic descriptions on Wikidata now we will actively > > discourage people from entering more descriptions. That would be bad > > as 3rd parties then don't get the benefit of them. > > I am also hesitant to build this into Wikibase directly as it'd need > > quite some domain-knowledge for all I can tell at this point. That's > > something we need to avoid. > > Anyone got ideas how to get out of this? > > > > > > Cheers > > Lydia > > > > -- > > Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher > > Product Manager for Wikidata > > > > Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. > > Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 > > 10963 Berlin > > www.wikimedia.de > > > > Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. > > > > Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg > > unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das > > Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikidata-l mailing list > > Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > > > > -- > - Andrew Gray > andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >
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