Alsee added a comment.
In T248457#6003779 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248457#6003779>, @Mike_Peel wrote: > I really hope this never happens There was repeated consensus on this, and if you recall you participated in one <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Archive_145#RfC:_Populating_article_descriptions_magic_word>. The Foundation handled things badly, but committed to terminating wikidata descriptions when we reached 2 million local descriptions. I expect the result would be Bad all around if the Foundation were to renege. > There are 2.8+ million infoboxes on Commons that are using the English descriptions from Wikidata, and there is currently no way that they can access the enwp descriptions. Should we open a different task for English article-descriptions to replace the English field on wikidata? TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248457 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Alsee Cc: Mike_Peel, JJMC89, DannyS712, Aklapper, Alsee, Liuxinyu970226, darthmon_wmde, Nandana, Lahi, Gq86, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, LawExplorer, _jensen, rosalieper, Scott_WUaS, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Mbch331
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