Magnus, were you thinking that if there *is* a description field for the knowledge item then that should override the computed description?
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Magnus Manske <[email protected] > wrote: > As to Wikidata descriptions, I think it's a good first step. As someone > mentioned, it's pretty useless for most languages, as there are no > descriptions on Wikidata. IMHO the next step is auto-generating short > descriptions from the item statements, which will be perfectly fine for the > vast majority of cases. > > If this is done, I suggest to NOT put the auto-generated text in the > manual description field, as descriptions will improve over time, through > both new statements and better algorithms. Rather, cache descriptions > separately, and update them as required. > > On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 4:52 PM Adam Baso <[email protected]> wrote: > >> We recently resumed tweeting with the @WikimediaMobile handle, and I >> wanted to share one tweet with you: >> >> https://twitter.com/WikimediaMobile/status/631178379501285376 >> >> It looks like people are pretty keen on it. >> >> There was one person who said outside of top Wikipedias it doesn't seem >> quite as useful. I was wondering, what role might >> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Arbitrary_access play in helping >> to enrich results? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100786 and >> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100787 are recent examples of >> implementation of this sort of thing, as mentioned on >> https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments. >> >> -Adam >> _______________________________________________ >> Mobile-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l >> >
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