IMO, allowing the user to edit the description is
a missed opportunity to
make the user edit the actual *data*, such that the description is
generated correctly.
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 8:02 PM, Monte Hurd <mhurd(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
IMO, if the goal is quality, then human curated
descriptions are
superior until such time as the auto-generation script passes the Turing
test ;)
I see these empty descriptions as an amazing opportunity to give
*everyone* an easy new way to edit. I whipped an app editing interface up
at the Lyon hackathon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VblyGhf_c8
I used it to add a couple hundred descriptions in a single day just by
hitting "random" then adding descriptions for articles which didn't have
them.
I'd love to try a limited test of this in production to get a sense for
how effective human curation can be if the interface is easy to use...
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 1:25 PM, Jan Ainali <jan.ainali(a)wikimedia.se>
wrote:
Nice one!
Does not appear to work on svwiki though. Does it have something to do
with that the wiki in question does not display that tagline?
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2015-08-18 17:23 GMT+02:00 Magnus Manske <magnusmanske(a)googlemail.com>om>:
> Show automatic description underneath "From Wikipedia...":
>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/autodesc.js
>
> To use, add:
> importScript ( 'User:Magnus_Manske/autodesc.js' ) ;
> to your common.js
>
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 9:47 AM Jane Darnell <jane023(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> It would be even better if this (short: 3 field max) pipe-separated
>> list was available as a gadget to wikidatans on Wikipedia (like me). I
>> can't see if a page I am on has an "instance of" (though it should)
and I
>> can see the description thanks to another gadget (sorry no idea which one
>> that is). Often I will update empty descriptions, but if I was served basic
>> fields (so for a painting, the creator field), I would click through to
>> update that too.
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <
>> nemowiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Jane Darnell, 15/08/2015 08:53:
>>>
>>>> Yes but even if the descriptions were just the contents of fields
>>>> separated by a pipe it would be better than nothing.
>>>>
>>>
>>> +1, item descriptions are mostly useless in my experience.
>>>
>>> As for "get into production on Wikipedia" I don't know what it
>>> means, I certainly don't like 1) mobile-specific features, 2) overriding
>>> existing manually curated content; but it's good to 3) fill gaps. Mobile
>>> folks often do (1) and (2), if they *instead* did (3) I'd be very happy.
:)
>>>
>>> Nemo
>>>
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