Sure, I won't deny that it would still need a lot of work, but I still see
it as a logical next step.
On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 11:41 AM, Max Semenik <maxsem.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Eh, please don't - have you tried it for languages
other than English?
09 февр. 2015 г. 5:55 пользователь "Dmitry Brant" <dbrant(a)wikimedia.org>
написал:
Awesome! I would love to see the output of AutoDesc be returned by the
> API, when a manual description is not available.
> I would also be a strong proponent of fully auto-generated descriptions
> for all articles. (The data is right there!)
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 5:44 AM, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> See
https://tools.wmflabs.org/autodesc for the new API described in the
>> post. Interesting at least as a fallback to human-written descriptions...
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Magnus Manske <magnusmanske(a)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(a)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(a)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(a)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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