Hi Oliver, Thanks for bringing this up--this is something the reading and discovery teams can discuss off-list, I think. Best, J
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 8:34 PM, Oliver Keyes <[email protected]> wrote: > What was the involvement of the Discovery team, which runs innovation > around our search systems, in this decision? > > On 28 October 2015 at 22:50, 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 > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > -- > Oliver Keyes > Count Logula > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
