On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Adam Baso <abaso@wikimedia.org> wrote:

I was wondering, what role might https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Arbitrary_access play in helping to enrich results? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100786 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100787 are recent examples of implementation of this sort of thing, as mentioned on https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments.

I don't think it plays any role. Arbitrary access is about cache invalidation: how to make sure that article A can display a value from the data item of article B and do not become stale when that data item is edited. For search results, that kind of invalidation probably does not make sense and their caching should be controlled with some kind of TTL instead.

On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Magnus Manske <magnusmanske@googlemail.com> wrote:

IMHO the next step is auto-generating short descriptions from the item statements, which will be perfectly fine for the vast majority of cases.

The Wikidata team is not a fan of that idea: T91981