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TASK DESCRIPTION
  The `action=query&prop=description` API doesn't provide `description` nor 
`descriptionsource` fields in the Wikipedia beta cluster 
<https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=query&format=json&prop=description&titles=San%20Francisco>
 anymore. (It still works in production at this time.)
  
  Steps to Reproduce: 
  
https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=description&titles=San%20Francisco
  
  Actual Results:
  Output does not include `description` nor `descriptionsource` fields.
  
    {
        "batchcomplete": "",
        "query": {
            "pages": {
                "5680": {
                    "pageid": 5680,
                    "ns": 0,
                    "title": "San Francisco"
                }
            }
        }
    }
  
  Expected Results:
  Output includes `description` nor `descriptionsource` fields.
  Should be similar to production 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=description&titles=San%20Francisco>
 (but different page id, of course). It should be something like:
  
        "batchcomplete": "",
        "query": {
            "pages": {
                "5680": {
                    "pageid": 5680,
                    "ns": 0,
                    "title": "San Francisco",
                    "description": "City in the USA",
                    "descriptionsource": "central"
                }
            }
        }
    }
  
  Checks done so far:
  
  - This Wikipedia page does not have a local `short description`.
  - https://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Q500978 does have a description and 
the Wikidata API 
<https://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=wbgetentities&format=json&ids=Q500978&props=descriptions&languages=en>
 returns it.
  - See P11087 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P11087> showing null returned 
for `$termLookup->getDescription($itemId, 'en')`. Maybe some kind of cache 
corruption or a bug in Wikibase extension?
  - Also tried a few other pages on the WP beta cluster 
<https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=query&format=json&prop=description&titles=San%20Francisco%7CCat%7CDog>.
 all missing the description.
  
  [1] 
https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-Wikibase/blob/master/client/includes/Api/Description.php

TASK DETAIL
  https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251550

WORKBOARD
  https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/

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To: bearND
Cc: Aklapper, bearND, darthmon_wmde, Nandana, Lahi, Gq86, GoranSMilovanovic, 
QZanden, LawExplorer, _jensen, rosalieper, Scott_WUaS, Wikidata-bugs, aude, 
Mbch331
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