First of all, a big shout out to Daniel from the Wikidata team for adding the new pageterms API https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T74729 we can use for getting Wikidata descriptions directly from the local MediaWiki site. Before that, we had to talk to wikidata.org directly. Now we don't have to, which makes this more scalable and performant. For search results we get those descriptions directly in search requests. So, no extra requests anymore. :) I hope we can get the pageterms API to mobileview action https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76870 soon, so we don't have to make separate requests to get the descriptions under the page titles.
The Read more entries are generated using full text search with the page title as the search term. We request the first four full text search results. Usually the same page is included in that. We omit the same page then, of course, or stop when we have three valid results.
Bernd
On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Tomasz Finc tfinc@wikimedia.org wrote:
Nice job team. I'm excited to see WikiData show up more and and the read more sections.
How are we sourcing those?
--tomasz
On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Bernd Sitzmann bsitzmann@wikimedia.org wrote:
Dear Android app users,
A few minutes ago a new beta release got published, which should be available through the store in a couple of hours. It's been a while
since we
last published a new beta so the list of changes is fairly long and exciting:
- Material design icons and 5.0 toolbar/support
- Search bar is back
- Search order improvements
- Add page descriptions from wikidata.org to search results, similar
pages,
and on pages under the title
- Swipe to refresh on pages and for Nearby feature
- Infoboxes are collapsed by default
- Layout improvements for tablets
- Added "Read more" section at the end of the page (except main page)
- New setting to allow disabling images
- Simple syntax highlighting of templates while editing
- Hide IPA
- ToC drawer always on
- Similar pages, page issues, reference info display changes
- Correctly display MathML fallback images
- Remove pinch-zoom in WebView
- Various bug fixes
Please report any issues you find.
Enjoy, Bernd
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