| daniel added a comment. |
@gh87 I wonder whether this discussion was sufficiently informed by the technical options and implications.
For instance, this statement: That requires meaningful integration in Wikipedia watchlists and page history. Those are features that the Wikidata team is working on, but they don't currently exist, and they don't have a timeline for it. Similarly: There is also a technical problem in that the short description is currently not visible from desktop view,and does not show up usefully on watchlists, so vandalism can go undetected by Wikipedians.
It's true that there is no timeline for integration with page history, and it's unclear whether that is even desired. But integration with the watchlist can easily be achieved, and so can display on the desktop view (the hardest part is deciding where to show this). It's frustrating to see that these things were not considered in the discussion. My impression is that the decision was made based on the assumption that proper watchlist integration was a hard problem, which it is not.
I'm not suggesting to go against a community decision. I'm suggesting to:
- make alternative solutions available, if doing so does not require much extra work
- revisit such decisions based on the available technical options
- improve communication with developers, so "easy win" alternatives can be suggested during such discussions
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