RexxS added a comment.
The advice given to editors adding short descriptions on enwiki is to use the same case as would be used in article titles, e.g. "American politician", "Largest city in England", "eBay Founder". Those are the correct case to use on any sub-heading such the search on mobile and the sub-heading on the Wikipedia App. It is unfortunate that Wikidata chose to use prose fragment case, as that never gets used in any application that I'm aware of. Editors will of course make mistakes, on either project, so differences in capitalisation won't be an argument in favour of using either project as the central repository. Because enwiki editors have found an extra use for the short description, as an annotation for links (in //See also// sections, for example), there will be valid examples of short descriptions that contain wikimarkup, usually a link. It's fairly straightforward to strip wikimarkup from any text, so that shouldn't be a barrier to importing short descriptions into Wikidata, where the markup would serve no purpose. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184000 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Tgr, RexxS Cc: Bugreporter, 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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