On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 5:08 AM, Magnus Manske <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ah, but when auto-descriptions get better, how do we know which should be > updated, and which have been "improved" bu humans? Because people will > screem bloody murder if we replace "their" descriptions with automatic > ones, even if those are better. > Would it be acceptable to *generate* a description on the fly if there isn't a description in the user's language, but never *replace* an existing description in Wikidata? AIUI this is what RESTBase is good at: in response to API requests for information about a page, some backend generates information, RESTBase caches it for future requests but RESTBase doesn't update the content databases. If I'm right (unlikely :-) ), then the upcoming MobileApps service could do this without anyone screaming. Maybe the MobileApps service already does this, I'm not sure what https://restbase.wikimedia.org/en.wikipedia.org/v1/page/mobile-text/Cat puts in the "description" field if Wikidata's description is empty. figuring out which descriptions we can overwrite is next-to-impossible. > So don't try. The game becomes: present the generated description next to the manual Wikidata description, and if enough users prefer the former, blank out the Wikidata description. Cheers, -- =S Page WMF Tech writer
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