this is something the reading and discovery teams can
discuss off-list, I think.
What brings you to think this? :)
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Betreff: Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikidata descriptions to show on mobile web Wikipedias
Datum: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 16:33:59 +0100
Von: Jon Katz <jkatz(a)wikimedia.org>
An: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi Oliver,
Thanks for bringing this up--this is something the reading and discovery
teams can discuss off-list, I think.
Best,
J
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 8:34 PM, Oliver Keyes <okeyes(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:> What was the involvement of the Discovery team, which runs innovation>
around our search systems, in this decision?>> On 28 October 2015 at 22:50, Jon Katz
<jkatz(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:>> Hi All,>>>> TLDR: on the
mobile web, Wikidata descriptions will appear under article>> titles in search
results, nearby and watchlist starting tomorrow> afternoon>> (Thu, Oct 29) across
projects. A 'kill switch' has been implemented so>> that this feature can
be turned off if necessary.>>>> Background:>> In Q2 of last year,
Wikidata descriptions were added to both our official>> apps: iOS and Android and
resulted in wonderful qualitative feedback (as>> the discovery team knows, it is
hard to define 'success' with search> (fewer>> searches, more searches?).
Though moving Wikidata descriptions to search>> on mobile web was planned for Q3 of
last year, it has been sitting in> beta>> for many months as there was so
me concern that at scale on the web, it>> might prove to be an incentive to
vandalize Wikidata (and article editors>> would not have an obvious, wikipedia way
to undo such edits).>>>> Ultimately, we think that anything showing up on
Wikipedia should be>> editable ON Wikipedia. Wikidata description editing is
something we are>> going to aim for. Given the success of descriptions in search
results on>> apps, we would rather move forward with the presentation and work>
towards a>> goal of editing in-line than to hold up the entire thing based on a
fear>> that might not be warranted. In consultation with the Wikidata team,
we>> decided to move forward with pushing the feature to stable as long as
we>> had the ability to pull the feature back if there were any
issues.>>>> We are relying on community feedback to let us know if you have
any> issues>> or hear from anyone that this is causing problems. Our community
liaison>> team will be posting notices on village pumps shortly.
Thanks!>>>>
Best,>>>> Jon>> WMF Reading Product Lead>>
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