I'll state a bunch of things that are obvious to me, but should probably be
written down in some way...
IPA, other names, and names in other languages indeed make reading harder.
They are there because of a tradition. There's a tradition of printing
encyclopedia articles like this (that's also
I agree with Magnus that it should be Wikidata to the rescue for problems
like these, not some new policy that throws current WP contributors into a
tizzy. I am not sure how precisely, but maybe if all parts of a lead
sentence were in Wikidata then one could then experiment with a new
Wikidata
It’s official, Ryan is old-fashioned, unless you can show otherwise. Here is
the challenge: [1].
[1]
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/03/08/opinion/sunday/algorithm-human-quiz.html?_r=0
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/03/08/opinion/sunday/algorithm-human-quiz.html?_r=0
On Mar
Well, I only got 5 out of 8. I guess computers have gotten clever. Damn
new-fangled gadgets!
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Bahodir Mansurov bmansu...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
It’s official, Ryan is old-fashioned, unless you can show otherwise. Here
is the challenge: [1].
[1]
On Mar 9, 2015, at 11:17 AM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Call me old-fashioned, but I would really hate to see the lead sentences of
Wikipedia articles auto-generated by a program. Our text is dry and
monotonous enough as it is :)
+1
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 5:05
On 7 March 2015 at 09:13, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote:
May I use this as a shameless plug for my automatic description API:
http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=265
You absolutely may! It has made it into my proposal for the Mobile Apps
Team's work next quarter: In-line
May I use this as a shameless plug for my automatic description API:
http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=265
It scores a 9 in the Hemmingway app for Nietzsche, as opposed to the 22 for
the English Wikipedia initial paragraph:
On 7 Mar 2015 09:13, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote:
May I use this as a shameless plug for my automatic description API:
http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=265
It scores a 9 in the Hemmingway app for Nietzsche, as opposed to the 22
for the English Wikipedia initial
I would strongly recommend NOT to import automatic descriptions as manual
descriptions into Wikidata. Automatic descriptions change when the data
changes, new data is added, or the algorithm improves. I would prefer
manual descriptions done by humans, for the comparatively small number of
items
On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Jon Robson jrob...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Any reason this is on mobile-tech and not mobile-l (I'd love to hear from
people like Amir on this subject)? It would be good to flag this problem to
a wider audience and part of our problem with most mobile issues is
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