IMO, if the goal is quality, then human curated descriptions are superior
until such time as the auto-generation script passes the Turing test ;)
I see these empty descriptions as an amazing opportunity to give *everyone*
an easy new way to edit. I whipped an app editing interface up at the Lyon
hackathon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VblyGhf_c8
I used it to add a couple hundred descriptions in a single day just by
hitting "random" then adding descriptions for articles which didn't have
them.
I'd love to try a limited test of this in production to get a sense for how
effective human curation can be if the interface is easy to use...
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 1:25 PM, Jan Ainali <[email protected]> wrote:
> Nice one!
>
> Does not appear to work on svwiki though. Does it have something to do
> with that the wiki in question does not display that tagline?
>
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> 2015-08-18 17:23 GMT+02:00 Magnus Manske <[email protected]>:
>
>> Show automatic description underneath "From Wikipedia...":
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/autodesc.js
>>
>> To use, add:
>> importScript ( 'User:Magnus_Manske/autodesc.js' ) ;
>> to your common.js
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 9:47 AM Jane Darnell <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> It would be even better if this (short: 3 field max) pipe-separated list
>>> was available as a gadget to wikidatans on Wikipedia (like me). I can't see
>>> if a page I am on has an "instance of" (though it should) and I can see the
>>> description thanks to another gadget (sorry no idea which one that is).
>>> Often I will update empty descriptions, but if I was served basic fields
>>> (so for a painting, the creator field), I would click through to update
>>> that too.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Jane Darnell, 15/08/2015 08:53:
>>>>
>>>>> Yes but even if the descriptions were just the contents of fields
>>>>> separated by a pipe it would be better than nothing.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> +1, item descriptions are mostly useless in my experience.
>>>>
>>>> As for "get into production on Wikipedia" I don't know what it means, I
>>>> certainly don't like 1) mobile-specific features, 2) overriding existing
>>>> manually curated content; but it's good to 3) fill gaps. Mobile folks often
>>>> do (1) and (2), if they *instead* did (3) I'd be very happy. :)
>>>>
>>>> Nemo
>>>>
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