Deskana added a comment. In https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97566#1256581, @Lydia_Pintscher wrote:
> - Agree that usage information should not go into the descriptions. Existing > descriptions should be rewritten. This solution would remove a use case which is currently supported in Wikidata, albeit badly, so this does not seem like a good solution to me. > - Agree that usage descriptions should always go in brackets and that they > can be discarded by clients who don't need them. This would necessitate duplicative code in all API clients, so also does not seem like a good solution. That said, an alternative to this would be for Wikidata to also emit a sanitised description via the API, which performs this stripping on the server, thus reducing code duplication whilst essentially performing the same function. Exposing such functionality in the PageTerms API module would likely not be hard. > My feeling is that we are talking about a very small number of items here. > (Happy to be proven wrong.) I think you're right about that, although I do not have numbers to back up my statement either. :-) > I am not going to spend a lot of development time and add additional > complexity, maintenance effort and so on for a very marginal number of items > when the issue can be solved much easier and with less complexity for > everyone. If a team the the WMF badly needs this, they can consider assigning their own engineers to tackle the problem. Ah, the beauty of open source! They would undoubtedly appreciate your guidance and domain knowledge as to what you believe the correct solution to be before they can do that. :-) If the Readership Team chose to tackle this themselves, which of the proposed solutions would you prefer they implement? TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97566 REPLY HANDLER ACTIONS Reply to comment or attach files, or !close, !claim, !unsubscribe or !assign <username>. EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Deskana Cc: Jdforrester-WMF, Pigsonthewing, Tfinc, Deskana, Mhurd, Lydia_Pintscher, Aklapper, kaldari, Wikidata-bugs, aude _______________________________________________ Wikidata-bugs mailing list Wikidata-bugs@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-bugs
