Magnus added a comment. @Nikerabbit 13M items x 287 languages = 4 //billion// descriptions to fill in manually. For simple one-line description, a few //minutes// of developer time per language would suffice.
Manual descriptions make sense where the notability (in lack of a better term) of the item is not easily expressed via statements. But people typing "Dutch painter (1750-1800)" in 287 languages is, quite frankly, idiotic if one can do the same from the statements. And statements improve over time. Someone adds a parent in a statement, or an award that painter won, or an employer, or... Then 287 manual descriptions will have to be updated, just to be //en par// with an automatic description. Madness! TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T64695 REPLY HANDLER ACTIONS Reply to comment or attach files, or !close, !claim, !unsubscribe or !assign <username>. EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Magnus Cc: Magnus, Nikerabbit, Wikidata-bugs, Amire80, Nemo_bis, He7d3r, Micru, Lydia_Pintscher, JohnLewis, aude, Gryllida, Shizhao, Arrbee _______________________________________________ Wikidata-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-bugs
