jeblad added a comment.
The use case has never gone away, but the pages are hard to find and isn't used. That is a problem they share wit a lot of special pages, and it will not go away by linking to some external tool. (In fact the problem grows, but that is another discussion.) Part of the problem is that the special pages lives on the repo, where the problem created by lack of labels or descriptions are small, while the problem they was meant to solve exist on the clients where a reference to an entity with a missing label often end up with a Q-id. The response from some users at Wikipedias communities are rather tiresome… Note that the language communities (especially those of any size) mostly exists at the clients, not so much at the repo. That is part of the reason why the special pages aren't used very much. Using special pages at the repo is simply out of the users mental model. The WBridge will probably solve most of this, especially for the labels, not so sure about the descriptions though. The users mental model is probably to search for items without a label on the client site, while it is probably easier to implement on the repo. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194144 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: jeblad Cc: jeblad, Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE, alaa_wmde, Ladsgroup, Addshore, Aklapper, EBernhardson, Smalyshev, Lydia_Pintscher, hoo, Iflorez, darthmon_wmde, DannyS712, Nandana, Lahi, Gq86, Darkminds3113, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, LawExplorer, Vali.matei, _jensen, rosalieper, Jonas, Volker_E, Wikidata-bugs, aude, GWicke, Dinoguy1000, Mbch331, Jay8g
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