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Replace hovercards usage of exsentences with exchars and exintro (like iOS native app)
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Description

Given the bugs that sentence detection in textextracts, let's migrate hovercards to use exintro instead of exchars for the summary.

Spike: T135020
Related bugs: T115817

Acceptance criteria

  • Request 525 characters
  • Use exintro on the query, otherwise exchars will return unparsed wikitext from followup sections
  • Adjust the currently oversimplified approach of overflow: hidden (which cuts sentences off mid word) to use text-overflow: ellipsis (which has a better tradeoff of ellipsizing things midword).
    • Moved to T136283 as it is a new feature and it doesn't block test/initial rollout.

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Restricted Application added subscribers: Zppix, Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptMay 20 2016, 10:52 AM
dr0ptp4kt updated the task description. (Show Details)May 23 2016, 12:10 PM
Jdlrobson renamed this task from Replace hovercards usage of exsentences with exchars to Replace hovercards usage of exsentences with exintro.May 23 2016, 4:31 PM
• jhobs updated the task description. (Show Details)May 23 2016, 4:32 PM
Jdlrobson moved this task from Needs Analysis to To Do on the Reading-Web-Sprint-73-One-day-we'll-finish-the-EventLogging-card board.May 23 2016, 4:33 PM
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dr0ptp4kt renamed this task from Replace hovercards usage of exsentences with exintro to Replace hovercards usage of exsentences with exchars and exintro (like iOS native app).May 23 2016, 7:15 PM
Jhernandez triaged this task as Normal priority.May 25 2016, 10:33 AM
Jhernandez updated the task description. (Show Details)May 26 2016, 10:42 AM

There is no good reliable way of doing multi line ellipsis only with CSS, and currently hovercards doesn't really do anything about it.

In any case it is a new feature unrelated to the exchars change, so I've splitted it into a followup task for prio, triage and design consideration.

gerritbot added a subscriber: gerritbot.May 26 2016, 10:43 AM

Change 290913 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jhernandez):
Use exchars instead of exsentences for the extract

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/290913

phuedx added a subscriber: phuedx.EditedMay 26 2016, 2:29 PM

The TextExtracts API is appending an ellipsis to the extract which is visible when the extract is short, e.g. the first example from T115817 is dealt with very neatly:

But the following isn't:

I note that using CSS ellipsis to deal with this has been moved to T136283 but, given the behaviour of TextExtracts, I'm not convinced that it's a new/distinct feature.

Edit

Thoughts?

Jhernandez added a comment.May 26 2016, 4:29 PM

@phuedx before this patch Page-Previews had no ellipsis treatment at all.

I would consider the behavior of TextExtracts of adding an ellipsis even when there is no more content in the page/first section a bug. What do you think?

Jhernandez added a comment.May 26 2016, 4:40 PM

@phuedx I can remove the '...' if it is there until we get to do the css ellipsis?

phuedx added a comment.May 26 2016, 4:45 PM
In T135824#2330850, @Jhernandez wrote:

Seems like a bug in exchars IMO.

Agreed.

In T135824#2330872, @Jhernandez wrote:

@phuedx I can remove the '...' if it is there until we get to do the css ellipsis?

+1

Jhernandez added a comment.May 26 2016, 5:18 PM

@phuedx Fixed in last PS.

gerritbot added a comment.May 26 2016, 6:21 PM

Change 290913 merged by jenkins-bot:
Use exchars instead of exsentences for the extract

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/290913

phuedx added a comment.EditedMay 31 2016, 8:56 AM

290913: Use exchars instead of exsentences for the extract has been pulled by the staging server.

phuedx closed this task as Resolved.May 31 2016, 9:02 AM

I created a test page (and associated pages) to test this change, using the examples from T115817 as well as pre-existing pages.

Since this is a technical change, I'm happy to sign off on it. If anyone objects or we identify a regression, then this task can re-opened.

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