Am 30.09.2015 um 23:38 schrieb Peter F. Patel-Schneider: > I would argue that inference-making bots should be considered only as a > stop-gap measure, and that a different mechanism should be considered for > making inferences in Wikidata. I am not arguing for Inference done Just Right > (tm). It is not necessary to get inference perfect the first time around. > All that is required is an inference mechanism that is examinable and maybe > overridable.
To do that, you would have to bake the inference rules into software in the backend software, out of community control, maintained by a small group of people. It's contrary to the idea of letting the community define and maintain the ontology and semantics. We are actually experimenting with something in that direction -- checking constraints defined on-wiki using rules written into software on the backend, hard-coding rules that were defined by the community. It's conceivable that we might end up doing something like that for inference, too, but it's a lot harder, and the slippery slope away from the community model seems much steeper to me. When I started to think about, and work on, wikidata/wikibase, I believed doing inference on the server would be a very useful. The longer I work on the project, the more convinced I become that we have to be very careful with this. Wikidata is a "social machine", cutting the community out of the loop is detrimental in the long run, even if it would make some processes more efficient. -- Daniel Kinzler Senior Software Developer Wikimedia Deutschland Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
