Maybe not really a correct answer to your question, but I'm thiking of
something similar of automated generated articles.

In my suggestion this was, associate a template description, in form of a
 wikitemplate that uses claims, to a query.

2015-02-09 11:58 GMT+01:00 Daniel Kinzler <[email protected]>:

> @Gerard, @Magnus: please help me out here.
>
> I agree that automatic descriptions are very useful. I also think that in
> *some*
> cases, manual descriptions are more useful, and maybe even needed.
>
> I definitely think that 3rd party consumers of wikidata should not have to
> think
> about whether descriptions have been written manually or were created
> automatically. This should be completely transparent.
>
> So, if you want to help with making automated description a reality,
> please make
> suggestions that take into account the above points, and also consider the
> mechanisms for language fallback.
>
> The only thing that I can think of right away is simply inserting automated
> descriptions by bot. This isn't ideal, but I can't think of a better
> solution
> that wouldn't be hugely complicated (and would thus not be implemented any
> time
> soon). Maybe you have ideas?
>
> -- daniel
>
>
> Am 09.02.2015 um 11:41 schrieb Magnus Manske:
> > Manual descriptions are, in the vast majority of cases, a waste of
> volunteer
> > time. Alternative:
> > http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=265
> >
> > On Sun Feb 08 2015 at 17:37:42 Gerard Meijssen <
> [email protected]
> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hoi,
> >     How does that help ? The point is exactly that there is no point to
> >     descriptions. Why iterate on a dog it will still be a mutt.
> >     Thanks,
> >         GerardM
> >
> >     On 8 February 2015 at 14:07, Amir E. Aharoni <
> [email protected]
> >     <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> >         I'd rather see it not as something terribly disappointing, but
> as an
> >         opportunity to find a way to fill item descriptions more
> efficiently.
> >
> >         Basically, to find some cycles to resolve
> >         https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T64695
> >
> >         בתאריך 8 בפבר 2015 10:33, ‏"Gerard Meijssen" <
> [email protected]
> >         <mailto:[email protected]>> כתב:
> >
> >             Hoi,
> >             I understand that item descriptions are going to be used in
> a mobile
> >             app. In my opinion that is seriously disappointing because
> it is not
> >             realistic to expect enough coverage in any language.
> Particularly in
> >             the small languages it will not be really useful.
> >
> >             My question is: we have had automated descriptions for a
> long time.
> >             What is it that they makes that they are not used.?
> >
> >             Thanks,
> >                  GerardM
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