Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikidata descriptions to show on mobile web Wikipedias

2015-10-29 Thread Florian Schmidt
> 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 <jk...@wikimedia.org>
An: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l@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 <oke...@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 <jk...@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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https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l>>>> --> Oliver Keyes> 
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikidata descriptions to show on mobile web Wikipedias

2015-10-29 Thread Jon Katz
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  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  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 some 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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Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikidata descriptions to show on mobile web Wikipedias

2015-10-28 Thread Pine W
Request: for non-urgent, potentially high-impact changes, can notices to
village pumps and mailing lists go out at least 3 weeks in advance to give
the community opportunity to prepare and/or comment? I am not anticipating
that we'll get meaningfully more mobile Web vandalism, but announcing
non-urgent changes like this would be appreciated weeks in advance.

Thanks,
Pine
On Oct 28, 2015 7:51 PM, "Jon Katz"  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 some 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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Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikidata descriptions to show on mobile web Wikipedias

2015-10-28 Thread Oliver Keyes
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  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 some 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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[Wikitech-l] Wikidata descriptions to show on mobile web Wikipedias

2015-10-28 Thread Jon Katz
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 some 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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