IMO, allowing the user to edit the description is a missed opportunity to
make the user edit the actual *data*, such that the description is
generated correctly.



On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 8:02 PM, Monte Hurd <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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>>
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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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