I think from an ergonomic standpoint it would be helpful to treat
"descriptions" as "comments".  In the case of something from Wikipedia
there is a link to Wikipedia and that helps.

For objects where curators and users need to know what this object is,
 what gotchas are associated with using it,  etc,  such a facility would be
necessary.

Some standard should exist for "auto-generated descriptions" to be
considered good enough,  but for records like

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4876286

there ought to be some kind of red mark to say this record is thinner then
we like.  If somebody has a problem with that situation they ought to add
enough data to autogenerate a description better than

Exists(something): something has label "Beanie Babies 2.0" in the English
Language

hopefully the community can improve the database in terms of where their
needs are.



On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 6:18 AM, Thomas Douillard <
[email protected]> wrote:

> I also started a lua module on frwiki in the same spirit for on wiki
> without gadgets description generation:
> https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Description . It's used in the "Lien
> Wikidata" template, but it's unclear wether or not Wikipedians in frwiki
> will catch the bait :)
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