I'm not sure. By infobox chaos do you mean vandalism? I don't think you can eliminate vandalism through stronger types. I've seen people randomly change the population of Asia to a random number with the same number of digits. The most extreme constraint would be to disallow any information that doesn't match reality because we peer-review everything, but if you are on this mailing list I suspect you think crowdsourcing basically works to some extent and over time creates a valuable resource. I've yet to see someone re-vandalize something after I fix it, so I think most of them just want to see how long it takes someone to revert their edit. I was just wondering because I'm not aware of any templates that we've imported enough data to make them parameter-less in the articles, but perhaps that is a longer term goal.
> Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 09:47:41 -0400 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] phase 2 live on the first 11 Wikipedias > > On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 6:32 AM, Michael Hale <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Sure, I'm just wondering if it might be better to just go ahead and approve > > something like "number of floors" as a string, and then once numbers are > > supported we could try to automatically convert all of those strings to > > numbers and either delete or manually fix the errors that we find. > > Didn't we already discuss the "just let everything be a string and > figure it all out later" proposal? > > That's just recreating the infobox chaos and defeating the whole > purpose of Wikidata. > > Tom > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
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