RexxS added a comment.
The thing is, Mike, that the descriptions on Wikidata are monolingual. There is a separate description for every language, so it's not a matter of a central repository that can be used across all projects. The Wikidata description field is potentially useful for the corresponding language Wikipedia and the handful of multilingual Wikis, so it really doesn't find as many uses as statements do. Also unlike statements, it is not capable of being linked to a reliable source. so there's no inherent mechanism to promote reliability. I agree with Danny: we'd be far better off bot-importing the short description from the language Wikipedia into Wikidata's description. Or even better, dynamically importing the "local description' field, generated by the language Wikipedia as a read-only replacement for the Wikidata description. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184000 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Tgr, RexxS Cc: DannyS712, Liuxinyu970226, Lofhi, MGChecker, Pbsouthwood, Deskana, Catrope, RexxS, Nikerabbit, Dbrant, Jdlrobson, Stashbot, WMDE-leszek, Elitre, gerritbot, TheDJ, Fjalapeno, Tbayer, MZMcBride, Alsee, bearND, Mike_Peel, Tgr, JKatzWMF, daniel, Bmueller, Addshore, Lydia_Pintscher, Samwilson, Aklapper, DannyH, darthmon_wmde, Ddurigon, Mateo1977, Nandana, aezell, Lahi, Gq86, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, Taquo, LawExplorer, catalandres, JJMC89, B20180, _jensen, rosalieper, Scott_WUaS, Karthik_sripal, SBisson, Nakon, MusikAnimal, Fhocutt, Wikidata-bugs, Mooeypoo, aude, Ricordisamoa, -jem-, Jdforrester-WMF, Mbch331, Krenair
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