[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T97566: Provide another way to surface usage instructions besides tacking them onto descriptions

2018-08-12 Thread DarTar
DarTar added a comment. In T97566#4496912, @Smalyshev wrote: I think the way to solve the issue is to use P2559. For this to happen, it seems to be we need: A way for wbsearchentity to return P2559 (which implies, to return any additional data, configurable as P2559 for Wikidata). We may want

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T97566: Provide another way to surface usage instructions besides tacking them onto descriptions

2018-08-11 Thread Pigsonthewing
Pigsonthewing added a comment. This issue is being discussed at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#User_instructions_in_descriptions_are_harmful after it transpired that Siri had given an answer that a subject is "male - human who is male (use with Property:P21 sex or gender). For

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T97566: Provide another way to surface usage instructions besides tacking them onto descriptions

2017-07-13 Thread Eloquence
Eloquence added a comment. As someone using the wbsearchentities API in another application, I just want to express that I'd very much appreciate this functionality -- the internal usage descriptions on some items are distracting and make them significantly less useful for any kind of integration,