A blast from the past! Only now I noticed that text in brackets is back now.
I may have missed it, but I don't remember that this was announced anywhere. I'm curious, what was the thinking behind restoring it? -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore בתאריך יום ו׳, 13 במרץ 2015 ב-3:07 מאת Dan Garry <[email protected] >: > Hi everyone, > > *tl;dr: We'll be stripping all content contained inside brackets from the > first sentence of articles in the Wikipedia app.* > > The Mobile Apps Team is focussed on making the app a beautiful and > engaging reader experience, and trying to support use cases like wanting to > look something up quickly to find what it is. Unfortunately, there are > several aspects of Wikipedia at present that are actively detrimental to > that goal. One example of this are the lead sentences. > > As mentioned in the other thread on this matter > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2015-March/008715.html>, > lead sentences are poorly formatted and contain information that is > detrimental to quickly looking up a topic. The team did a quick audit > <https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/spreadsheets/d/1BJ7uDgzO8IJT0M3UM2q-e5dM5Tzt6p7w1mgNAd-Z3WE/edit#gid=0> > of > the information available inside brackets in the first sentences, and > typically it is pronunciation information which is probably better placed > in the infobox rather than breaking up the first sentence. The other > problem is that this information was typically inserted and previewed on a > platform where space is not at a premium, and that calculation is different > on mobile devices. > > In order to better serve the quick lookup use case, the team has reached > the decision to strip anything inside brackets in the first sentence of > articles in the Wikipedia app. > > Stripping content is not a decision to be made lightly. People took the > time to write it, and that should be respected. We realise this is > controversial. That said, it's the opinion of the team that the problem is > pretty clear: this content is not optimised for users quickly looking > things up on mobile devices at all, and will take a long time to solve > through alternative means. A quicker solution is required. > > The screenshots below are mockups of the before and after of the change. > These are not final, I just put them together quickly to illustrate what > I'm talking about. > > - Before: http://i.imgur.com/VwKerbv.jpg > - After: http://i.imgur.com/2A5PLmy.jpg > > If you have any questions, let me know. > > Thanks, > Dan > > -- > Dan Garry > Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps > Wikimedia Foundation > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l >
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