[WikimediaMobile] Fwd: [Wikidata-l] descriptions in mobile app

See https://tools.wmflabs.org/autodesc for the new API described in the post. Interesting at least as a fallback to human-written descriptions... -- Forwarded message -- From: Magnus Manske Date: Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 2:41 AM Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] descriptions in mobile app To:

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Fwd: [Wikidata-l] descriptions in mobile app

Awesome! I would love to see the output of AutoDesc be returned by the API, when a manual description is not available. I would also be a strong proponent of fully auto-generated descriptions for all articles. (The data is right there!) On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 5:44 AM, Erik Moeller wrote: > See

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Fwd: [Wikidata-l] descriptions in mobile app

Eh, please don't - have you tried it for languages other than English? 09 февр. 2015 г. 5:55 пользователь "Dmitry Brant" написал: > Awesome! I would love to see the output of AutoDesc be returned by the > API, when a manual description is not available. > I would also be a strong proponent of ful

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Fwd: [Wikidata-l] descriptions in mobile app

Sure, I won't deny that it would still need a lot of work, but I still see it as a logical next step. On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 11:41 AM, Max Semenik wrote: > Eh, please don't - have you tried it for languages other than English? > 09 февр. 2015 г. 5:55 пользователь "Dmitry Brant" > написал: > >

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While T74794 develops and is fixed, I've published the frontend docs on my site to help with some refactorings: http://chimeces.com/mobile-frontend-docs If at some point somebody needs it updated, feel free to pull request or ping me and I'll gladly upda

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Re: [WikimediaMobile] Changing JS Views to use the events map, careful

And now with the correct url... sorry for the spam https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Mobile_web/Coding_conventions/JavaScript/Views#Implementing_events_map_on_a_View_in_an_inheritance_chain On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Joaquin Oltra Hernandez < jhernan...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi!

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