Absolutely. However, IMO there should only be a manual description if the automatic one is not sufficient. "Austrian biologist (1900-1990), winner of the 1980 Whatnot award" is not something humans need to write in 250 languages. In fact, I'd be in favor of removing trivial manual descriptions, as automatic ones would likely be better (as in, more up-to-date with the statements).
But yes, the manual description, if present, should take precedence. On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 6:36 PM Adam Baso <ab...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Magnus, were you thinking that if there *is* a description field for the > knowledge item then that should override the computed description? > > On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Magnus Manske < > magnusman...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> 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 <ab...@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 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mobile-l mailing list >>> Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l >>> >> >
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