On 12.08.2014 23:49, Andre Engels wrote:
...
In my opinion, I think manual descriptions should be kept, as opposed to be
deleted completely. Instead, automatically generated descriptions should be
provided when there is no manual description and people should be asked to
override automatically generated descriptions. In other words, provide a
default one and let people change it, if for some reason it is not good
enough.
Are you sure someone is proposing deleting them? I think you're
fighting a strawman here.
Well, this was actually really a bit of a contentious issue at the
meeting that Sezgin is referring to ;-). However, we were all impressed
by the automated labels, and even if there was some discussion whether
(and how often) the manual description would be preferable, I saw a lot
of agreement that the automated descriptions would be much better than
empty labels. The proposal that Sezgin was making would be one way to
implement this (possibly with a high chance of wide consensus; I would
certainly welcome something like that).
Secondly, Denny is absolutely right: having more labels would be of huge
value in almost any language (even in English). So welcome again to
Wikidata! :-)
Cheers
Markus
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