[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T248457: Fully terminate use of Wikidata item descriptions as short article descriptions for English Wikipedia articles

Iniquity added a comment. In T248457#6293589 , @kaldari wrote: > There are other issues as well. For example, the Wikidata community's insistence that Wikidata descriptions are primarily for disambiguation on Wikidata and not intended

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T248457: Fully terminate use of Wikidata item descriptions as short article descriptions for English Wikipedia articles

Iniquity added a comment. Excuse me, I understand correctly that the devs, instead of including a changes in the Wikidata element's description to the watchlist and recent changes, agreed to such a strange decision? TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248457 EMAIL PREFERENCES

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T248457: Fully terminate use of Wikidata item descriptions as short article descriptions for English Wikipedia articles

DannyH added a comment. Hi everyone, I posted a response on the English WP Village Pump (WMF) page, saying that we are going to be working on this ticket. There are still a few things to work out, so there's no firm date. You can follow along by watching this ticket. My post is here:

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T248457: Fully terminate use of Wikidata item descriptions as short article descriptions for English Wikipedia articles

kaldari added a comment. Since the only wikis using `$wgWikibaseAllowLocalShortDesc` are English Wikipedia and Test Wikipedia, I think we should just repurpose that config variable rather than creating a new one. To implement this change, we'll probably need to do some refactoring in

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T248457: Fully terminate use of Wikidata item descriptions as short article descriptions for English Wikipedia articles

Jonesey95 added a comment. WMF staff, please hold up your end of our agreement by disabling the Wikidata fallback for short descriptions at en.WP. See this discussion on en.WP

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T248457: Fully terminate use of Wikidata item descriptions as short article descriptions for English Wikipedia articles

Alsee added a comment. The current mainspace search count of about 2,250,000 matches up well with the category count when you include non-article mainspace pages, primarily disambiguation.

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T248457: Fully terminate use of Wikidata item descriptions as short article descriptions for English Wikipedia articles

QEDK added a comment. In T248457#6008042 , @Pppery wrote: > I note that Category:Articles with short description only has 1.8 million entries. Why the difference?

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T248457: Fully terminate use of Wikidata item descriptions as short article descriptions for English Wikipedia articles

Pppery added a comment. I note that Category:Articles_with_short_description only has 1.8 million entries. Why the difference? TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248457 EMAIL PREFERENCES

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T248457: Fully terminate use of Wikidata item descriptions as short article descriptions for English Wikipedia articles

Mike_Peel added a comment. In T248457#6004246 , @Alsee wrote: > In T248457#6003779 , @Mike_Peel wrote: > >> I really hope this never happens > > There was repeated consensus on

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T248457: Fully terminate use of Wikidata item descriptions as short article descriptions for English Wikipedia articles

Lydia_Pintscher added a comment. In T248457#6004246 , @Alsee wrote: > In T248457#6003779 , @Mike_Peel wrote: > >> There are 2.8+ million infoboxes on Commons that are using the

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T248457: Fully terminate use of Wikidata item descriptions as short article descriptions for English Wikipedia articles

Alsee added a comment. In T248457#6003779 , @Mike_Peel wrote: > I really hope this never happens There was repeated consensus on this, and if you recall you participated in one

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T248457: Fully terminate use of Wikidata item descriptions as short article descriptions for English Wikipedia articles

Mike_Peel added a comment. I really hope this never happens, and that the locally-defined descriptions are merged back to Wikidata. There are 2.8+ million infoboxes on Commons that are using the English descriptions from Wikidata, and there is currently no way that they can access the enwp