On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 9:10 PM, Dmitry Brant <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jane, > > Perhaps my comments came off as more pessimistic than I intended. Of course > I believe in the power of crowdsourcing, and I would never want to make > anyone feel like their contributions are being marginalized. > > I'll agree for now that the idea of "fully" automated descriptions leans > more towards science fiction than reality. :) > > However, my whole point has more to do with the apparent duplication of > content that seems to be happening between the first sentence of Wikipedia > articles and the corresponding Wikidata description. There's something > about it that seems unnecessary. If we can figure out a way to > automatically extract the description from the first sentence of the > article, it would simplify things in two ways: > > 1) People wouldn't need to edit Wikidata descriptions, and would instead > focus on improving the Wikipedia article. > 2) People who monitor changes made to articles would need to monitor only > the article, instead of the article plus its corresponding Wikidata > description.
There are a lot more items on Wikidata than articles on Wikipedia. And not every language has a Wikipedia article for each item. Don't just look at descriptions on Wikidata as something useful for Wikipedia. They're much more than that. 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. _______________________________________________ Mobile-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l
