| Alsee added a comment. |
@Tgr thanks for catching my sloppy hatmaking example. Hatmaking is an illustration for a completely different serious bug - interwiki links are badly broken. 75% of the interwiki links are missing from the English article , and 75% of languages with an article are missing interwiki links to English version.
However the seesaw/swing example still proves the fundamental point. Wikidata descriptions are descriptions of Wikidata items, for Wikidata purposes. Trying to put a Czech article-description in the Wikidata-description would be flat-out wrong. And using a Wikidata description as the Czech article description is going to be wrong.
Wikidata descriptions commonly have a passable resemblance to article descriptions, and some clients may sloppily or carelessly use them for that purpose, but Wikidata descriptions are not article descriptions. They never were.
Whoever started using Wikidata descriptions as article descriptions either made a deliberate decision that a convenient and sloppy-resemblance to "right" was better than nothing; or they were careless and didn't think through what they were doing. Either way, it's the 100th case where we could have saved a lot of headaches if the WMF had talked to the community before building the code.
Can someone post a link to the relevant API documentation page?
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