A register of model documentationSETTING THE ISSUE…

CALAPHON

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The register is not answering.
The finding

Publishers document how to use a model. Far fewer say how it fails.

The register is still filling. No proportion will be printed here until the floor entries have been assessed — a percentage quoted off a handful of models is decoration wearing the clothes of a measurement.

Every figure on this page was produced by the published rubric, applied to a public API that needs no account. Nothing here is an opinion about whether a model is any good.

How the register divides

counts only — proportions withheld

Filed in this issue

The first issue has not been set yet.

What this measures

Whether a repository states its licence, describes what the model is for, names what it was trained on, reports an evaluation, and admits a limitation. Nine yes-or-no questions about files that either exist or do not.

What it does not

Whether the model is good, whether the licence is generous, or whether we approve of who published it. A colophon says how a thing was made. It does not review the thing.