RexxS added a comment.
In T248457#6006312 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248457#6006312>, @Mike_Peel wrote: > In T248457#6004246 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248457#6004246>, @Alsee wrote: > >> 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. > > Yes, my comment there still seems to hold true. "I personally think it is a bad idea and a waste of developer time." Add to that the massive waste of editor time to add those local descriptions, which can't even be copied back to Wikidata due to copyright restrictions. This whole situation sucks. The disadvantages of using a database field that isn't tracked and is not capable of being sourced to verify its contents far outweigh the value of being able to pull an English-only value into other projects. Those arguments are well-rehearsed and the consensus is clear. I seriously doubt that there are any genuine copyright barriers to importing enwiki short descriptions into the Wikidata description fields for two reasons: (1) short descriptions are almost certainly too short to be copyrightable (see https://www.bitlaw.com/copyright/unprotected.html for example); (2) we already import the English short description into Wikidata when we use //short description helper// to create a short description where Wikidata has no English description. The task T191531 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191531> asks for local short descriptions to be exposed via a Scribunto library call, and is still open. The simplest work-around is to use the Wikidata description field to hold each wiki's local description where it exists. There's no mechanism for that to happen automatically as far as I can see, but having a bot crawling for changes to the local short description and updating Wikidata would be nothing unusual and timely enough for our applications on Commons, etc. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248457 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: RexxS Cc: RexxS, QEDK, Pppery, Lydia_Pintscher, Mike_Peel, JJMC89, DannyS712, Aklapper, Alsee, Liuxinyu970226, darthmon_wmde, Nandana, lucamauri, Lahi, Gq86, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, LawExplorer, _jensen, rosalieper, Scott_WUaS, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Mbch331
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