| Mike_Peel added a comment. |
In T184000#3988364, @Alsee wrote: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.
This is partly true, but partly not. I'd describe them more as 'topic descriptions' - this is the description about what this topic is about, with links to the Wikipedia articles about it. Where the descriptions are well-written, then they do both what you are referring to as 'Wikidata descriptions' or 'article descriptions' (which are, sadly, yet another example of 'us vs them' thinking in this area...).
Although I still think the solution here is to improve the descriptions on Wikidata (and @daniel was spot-on here in his comments above), leaving that aside I have a question about the implementation. Will it be possible to access/display the descriptions in the text of other articles (e.g., list articles, or ideally even in Commons categories), or will this be write-only from the perspective of editing?
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