ChristianKl added a comment.
Currently quite a lot of the existing descriptions on Wikidata are bot created.
From pressing a few times on Random Item:
Q19410337 -> "street in Dongen, the Netherlands"
The bot User:RobotMichiel1972 that created this item put description in Dutch and in English.
Filceolaire added a comment.
If the user doesn't like the auto-description then the user can fix the two or
three wikidata statements used to generate the description. This will fix the
description in all languages so this is what we should be encouraging. Fixing
the English description will
Nemo_bis added a subscriber: Nemo_bis.
Nemo_bis added a comment.
Bot-generated articles are a stray argument. Precisely *because* bot-generated
articles were an issue, we need to cover topics nobody bothered to cover
without expensive static free text, in a sustainable way as Wikidata
Lydia_Pintscher added a comment.
Then let's clearly set expectations and criteria beforehand as to what
constitutes success and why we're actually doing it. Just because we want
to/can isn't enough imho.
FWIW: The auto-generated town articles you mention are imho a perfect example
of
Lydia_Pintscher added a comment.
What Thiemo says. I think auto-generating descriptions is a very bad idea. They
are just not good enough at this point to really capture why a certain concept
is important.
TASK DETAIL
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91981
EMAIL PREFERENCES
thiemowmde added a subscriber: thiemowmde.
thiemowmde added a comment.
@Tgr, we just talked about this in the team. T99895: article placeholder based
on Wikidata data https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T99895 is about the
situation where there is a Wikidata item but no article in the users
