Any reason this is on mobile-tech and not mobile-l (I'd love to hear from people like Amir on this subject)? It would be good to flag this problem to a wider audience and part of our problem with most mobile issues is people just are not aware of this sort of thing. Many probably haven't even heard of the hemingway app...It would be interesting to see how a wikidata generated first sentence would score with the same app.On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 3:54 PM, Vibha Bamba <vbamba@wikimedia.org> wrote:Hi Folks,Kaity and I used the Hemingway app to analyze the readability of our first sentence, using a few articles. They all scored poorly, an ideal grade level of 10 is recommended for clear bold writing.This difficult problem arises from the first sentence containing one or more of the following:
- IPA Keys
- Birth/ death dates
- Other Names/ AKA's
- Help/info links
- Alternate spellings and scripts
- Additional details
Details like dates are replicated in the infobox, if it exists in the article.Other templates such as AKA's/IPA's are extremely useful but need to be presented in a clear and structured manner. Some of this comes from the Manual of style, but it is abused in many cases.Its sad, because many readers come to Wikipedia to answer the 'What is this/ who is this' question. Google Knowledge panel strips out all brackets and presents important details as a list, under the description.We have started investigating solutions for this on mobile. I would encourage you to try this out on mobile web or apps.ThanksVibha & Kaity---Articles we used:----Vibha BambaSenior Designer | WMF Design