MisterSynergy added a comment.
The German Wikipedia community has not yet even discussed whether Wikidata descriptions should be dumped completely, or which milestone would be appropriate. Some remarks: - In case this gets approved, there is a plan to add short descriptions from [[de:Vorlage:Personendaten]], which actually has systematic "short descriptions" for all biographies in German Wikipedia that would immediately qualify for use in SHORTDESC as well. With 870.000 transclusions, it alone would be sufficient to pass the 850.000 requirement, leaving all non-biographies without descriptions. - A couple of days ago, I queried the situation a bit. There were 2,56 million German Wikipedia articles (main namespace, no redirects), of which 2,13 million (83%) use a German description from Wikidata. This is considerably more than what we had three years ago for English Wikipedia. You propose to ignore 1,3 million existing descriptions from Wikidata. This is way too much, particularly considering that quite some editors have invested considerable time into adding Wikidata descriptions due to the way they have been used and exposed to readers in the past six years or so. It is also unclear at this point whether there is a desire to dump Wikidata descriptions entirely that is as strong as it was in English Wikipedia three years ago. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279829 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: MisterSynergy Cc: MisterSynergy, Carn, Schniggendiller, Urbanecm, Majavah, FriedhelmW, Ghilt, DannyH, Bugreporter, Count_Count, RhinosF1, Aklapper, XanonymusX, Zabe, Invadibot, LaMagiaaa, maantietaja, Akuckartz, CptViraj, Dibya, 94rain, DannyS712, Nandana, Tks4Fish, Lahi, Gq86, GoranSMilovanovic, Jayprakash12345, QZanden, Kizule, LawExplorer, DatGuy, Devwaker, Niklitov, _jensen, rosalieper, JEumerus, Scott_WUaS, Ananthsubray, Superzerocool, Tulsi_Bhagat, Wong128hk, Luke081515, SimmeD, Wikidata-bugs, Snowolf, Base, aude, Dcljr, Addshore, Matanya, Mbch331, Jay8g, Krenair
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