> this is something the reading and discovery teams can discuss off-list, I > think. What brings you to think this? :)
-----Original-Nachricht----- 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>> _______________________________________________>> Wikitech-l mailing list>> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l>>>> --> Oliver Keyes> Count Logula> Wikimedia Foundation>> _______________________________________________> Wikitech-l mailing list> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
