Fetch description from Wikidata

[waldyrious]

Once the simpler variable content length feature is implemented (#19), it would be nice to compare the first sentence of the Wikipedia article with the Wikidata description, and eventually even allow editing them (#3)

The API calls to get the description from Wikidata should be pretty similar to the ones already used to fetch the article content, but I haven't tried them. From a quick look, I'd say that either wbsearchentities or wbgetentities actions are the ones we'd care about (there are examples at the bottom of both pages, as well as links to the live sandbox where experiments can be performed).

[waldyrious]

Related links:

• Stubopedia (proposal for a collection of only lemmas and one-liner definitions)
• Wiktionary (contains one-line definitions for some terms corresponding to Wikipedia articles, but not all Wikipedia articles have a matching Wiktionary entry)
• NinjaWords (a streamlined interface to Wiktionary definitions)
• WP:LEADSENTENCE (guidelines for the first sentence of a Wikipedia article)

[waldyrious]

More related links:

• Tool:AutoDesc
  • Announcement blog post
  • Source code
  • Same code as what Reasonator uses for its generated summaries?
• Extension:ArticlePlaceholder
• Wikidata:Automating descriptions

Note: Most of these are also listed here.