Considering that "hardcoded" descriptions (written manually, or generated automatically) for all items in all ~290 languages would likely make up most of the data dump file, this seems somewhat impractical :-)
For "offline users", description dumps could be generated on a regular basis, if there is demand. On Mon Feb 09 2015 at 11:05:26 Markus Kroetzsch < [email protected]> wrote: > On 09.02.2015 11:41, Magnus Manske wrote: > > Manual descriptions are, in the vast majority of cases, a waste of > > volunteer time. Alternative: > > http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=265 > > I am slightly concerned for the external data users (which I am too). > Descriptions are very useful to have in the data dumps. I don't mind if > they are auto-generated or written by humans, but I am worried that I > would have to go to a web service for fetching all them, which seems a > lot of work and very time consuming if you do it on the data dump scale. > It may not even be possilbe in all (offline) contexts where dumps can be > used. > > More generally, switching from "we provide the data" to "we provide some > data and a list of web services that you need to query to get the rest" > seems to be a change of paradigm that I am not entirely happy with. Just > consider how much data we import that is generated automatically -- > should we in all of this cases switch to offering a web service that > gives you the data if you really need? > > So, +1 for auto-generated descriptions, but -1 for not having them in > the data anymore. > > Cheers, > > Markus > > > > > -- > Markus Kroetzsch > Faculty of Computer Science > Technische Universität Dresden > +49 351 463 38486 > http://korrekt.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >
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