As to Wikidata descriptions, I think it's a good first step. As someone
mentioned, it's pretty useless for most languages, as there are no
descriptions on Wikidata. IMHO the next step is auto-generating short
descriptions from the item statements, which will be perfectly fine for the
vast majority of cases.
If this is done, I suggest to NOT put the auto-generated text in the manual
description field, as descriptions will improve over time, through both new
statements and better algorithms. Rather, cache descriptions separately,
and update them as required.
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 4:52 PM Adam Baso <abaso(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
We recently resumed tweeting with the @WikimediaMobile
handle, and I
wanted to share one tweet with you:
https://twitter.com/WikimediaMobile/status/631178379501285376
It looks like people are pretty keen on it.
There was one person who said outside of top Wikipedias it doesn't seem
quite as useful. 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.
-Adam
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