My feeling is that, even in English, automatically generated descriptions, based on properties, are better than description field. For other languages this is even more true.
This decision is English-centric and that is a shame. Joe On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 5:48 AM Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hoi, > > It is an old argument. It is however very potent. The data that you > provide may be additional and an improvement but it is still very much > second class quality. Automated descriptions are typically superior in any > language. But given the dominance of Wikipedia think it is no wonder that > second class quality has been chosen. > > This is no argument to use the kill switch, it is just the realisation > that what is best and brightest elsewhere is not relevant to Wikipedia. It > is apparently the only show in town. > Thanks, > GerardM > > On 29 October 2015 at 03:50, Jon Katz <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> TLDR: on the mobile web, Wikidata descriptions will appear under article >> titles in search results, nearby and watchlist starting tomorrow afternoon >> (Thu, Oct 29) across projects. A 'kill switch' has been implemented so >> that this feature can be turned off if necessary. >> >> Background: >> In Q2 of last year, Wikidata descriptions were added to both our official >> apps: iOS and Android and resulted in wonderful qualitative feedback (as >> the discovery team knows, it is hard to define 'success' with search (fewer >> searches, more searches?). Though moving Wikidata descriptions to search >> on mobile web was planned for Q3 of last year, it has been sitting in beta >> for many months as there was some concern that at scale on the web, it >> might prove to be an incentive to vandalize Wikidata (and article editors >> would not have an obvious, wikipedia way to undo such edits). >> >> Ultimately, we think that anything showing up on Wikipedia should be >> editable ON Wikipedia. Wikidata description editing is something we are >> going to aim for. Given the success of descriptions in search results on >> apps, we would rather move forward with the presentation and work towards a >> goal of editing in-line than to hold up the entire thing based on a fear >> that might not be warranted. In consultation with the Wikidata team, we >> decided to move forward with pushing the feature to stable as long as we >> had the ability to pull the feature back if there were any issues. >> >> We are relying on community feedback to let us know if you have any >> issues or hear from anyone that this is causing problems. Our community >> liaison team will be posting notices on village pumps shortly. Thanks! >> >> Best, >> >> Jon >> WMF Reading Product Lead >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >
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