See https://tools.wmflabs.org/autodesc for the new API described in the post. Interesting at least as a fallback to human-written descriptions...

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From: Magnus Manske <magnusmanske@googlemail.com>
Date: Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 2:41 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] descriptions in mobile app
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Manual descriptions are, in the vast majority of cases, a waste of volunteer time. Alternative:
http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=265


On Sun Feb 08 2015 at 17:37:42 Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com> wrote:
Hoi,
How does that help ? The point is exactly that there is no point to descriptions. Why iterate on a dog it will still be a mutt.
Thanks,
    GerardM

On 8 February 2015 at 14:07, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:

I'd rather see it not as something terribly disappointing, but as an opportunity to find a way to fill item descriptions more efficiently.

Basically, to find some cycles to resolve
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T64695

בתאריך 8 בפבר 2015 10:33, ‏"Gerard Meijssen" <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com> כתב:
Hoi,
I understand that item descriptions are going to be used in a mobile app. In my opinion that is seriously disappointing because it is not realistic to expect enough coverage in any language. Particularly in the small languages it will not be really useful.

My question is: we have had automated descriptions for a long time. What is it that they makes that they are not used.?

Thanks,
     GerardM

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