One answer would be deeper answer of autodescription into Wikidata. I don't
know how to make this flexible and generic enough to make this only
depedant of Wikibase model concept though.

One rough and not thought throw proposition would be: associate a
(mediawiki?) template to a query or a class for each language, which
generates a description if an item matches the query according to the
values of the properties.

hen we could add an API call that uses the template.


2014-08-19 16:13 GMT+02:00 Lydia Pintscher <[email protected]>:

> On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 11:19 AM, David Cuenca <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Thanks for the stats, Gerard. Two thoughts:
> > - With so many items without description I wonder why we don't have the
> > automatic descriptions gadget enabled by default.
>
> I am a bit worried about enabling this by default for everyone as a
> gadget. We need the descriptions in a lot of places where people
> search for items. The next big one will be Commons. But _a lot_ more
> will come in the future. Think for example of tagging your blog post
> on Wordpress with Wikidata concepts. You'll need the descriptions. If
> we enable automatic descriptions on Wikidata now we will actively
> discourage people from entering more descriptions. That would be bad
> as 3rd parties then don't get the benefit of them.
> I am also hesitant to build this into Wikibase directly as it'd need
> quite some domain-knowledge for all I can tell at this point. That's
> something we need to avoid.
> Anyone got ideas how to get out of this?
>
>
> Cheers
> Lydia
>
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