2016-09-18 21:50 GMT+02:00 Magnus Manske <magnusman...@googlemail.com>: > The overwriting of human edits was the main "violation of the rules" that > led to the banning of Listeria bot on German Wikipedia for the article > namespace. I think someone actually made an IP edit just to have it > overwritten on the next update, then point to the "evil bot action". Ah, > such is luddites.
*facepalm* > I *think* you could do that if you use the SPARQL variables directly instead > of the properties in the column headings, but you'd need to make "fake" item > IDs (e.g. Q123.a, Q123.b or something). Internally, everything is wired to > list one item per row, and it would be hard to fiddle with it. It was always > a first attempt, not the final product... Thanks for the suggestion. By the way, it's a great start, believe me. :) 2016-09-19 11:06 GMT+02:00 John Erling Blad <jeb...@gmail.com>: > Either the list should just be a an entry point for a list structure or > table that is completely created outside the editors realm, or it should be > possible to merge any user edit with content from the bot. There should be > no in-between where the user needs additional knowledge about how to edit > the bot-produced content or even that (s)he can't edit the bot-produced > content. From the user (editors) point of view there should be no special > precautions to how some pages should be edited. I think this depends on and varies among communities. As I said, on it.wp all lists of people who were born and died on a particular date or year are automatically updated by a bot taking data from [1] since years, and nobody is batting an eye on this. This doesn't rule out some sort of "user creativity" in doing lists, but in my opinion a bot-made list at the moment is better than no list at all. Moreover, the bot-made list can be a starter for users to think what to include in the future in those lists, and to make those list better. Oh, no offence, but let's not forget that usually creating a table like [2] is difficult for an experienced user, let alone a newbie. L. [1] https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Bio [2] https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministri_della_Marina_del_Regno_d%27Italia _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
