Community Wishlist Survey 2017/Wikidata/Semi-automatic description generation

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Semi-automatic description generation

Problem: Currently, many descriptions created by bots can be derived and introduced logically, by using P31 and other properties (e.g. "Wikimedia disambiguation page", "Wikimedia category", "scientific journal", "scientific journal article", "species of animal", "protein-coding gene in the species Homo sapiens", etc.). In many case, once bots have created descriptions, the items escape the control of bots, so now it is very troublesome to add a translation in the new language to all of the existing items, or to delete descriptions in all languages when they are logically wrong.

Who would benefit: All editors, especially using minor languages.

Proposed solution: Triggered by the creation or updating of P31 (and other utilized properties) claim, database system generates the default description according to the centrally managed manually defined patterns, for each language. If the description is empty, system shows the default description. If a pattern for the corresponding language is undefined, system shows nothing.

More comments: With this new function, descriptions in Wikidata will be easily maintainable.

Phabricator tickets:

Proposer: Okkn (talk) 19:13, 10 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Translations: none yet

Discussion

I endorse to make this easier. There is en:MediaWiki:Wdsearch-autodesc.js, but more integration would be helpful. --Marsupium (talk) 20:33, 16 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Voting

Support --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 13:30, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Stryn (talk) 16:06, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support YFdyh000 (talk) 17:33, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Thomas Obermair 4 (talk) 23:15, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Shizhao (talk) 03:34, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Donald Trung (Talk 🤳🏻) (My global lock 🔒) (My global unlock 🔓) 13:09, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Marsupium (talk) 20:43, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ferdi2005 _(Posta) 22:13, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Pamputt (talk) 19:03, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Superchilum^{(talk to me!)} 21:23, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 16:12, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2 (talk) 16:24, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Termininja (talk) 17:51, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nahid Hossain (talk) 00:34, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Waldir (talk) 11:50, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Paucabot (talk) 19:13, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Epìdosis 08:13, 5 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support This would transfer a lot of work from humans to software. MartinPoulter (talk) 10:28, 6 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Jmmuguerza (talk) 20:04, 8 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Tacsipacsi (talk) 19:55, 9 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Luchesar • T/C 14:27, 11 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]