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
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