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Filceolaire added a comment.

Conceptually descriptions and usage notes are different things. The link 
between them is that users need to see both of these in pop-down lists on the 
user interface to help the users pick which to pick.

As they are different things therefore, in an ideal world, they should be 
different fields.

This isn't an ideal world so we need to think about what we do with the world 
we have.

Short term options:

1. mobile.WP ignores the descriptions and automatically generates descriptions 
based on the statements.
2. Usage notes in descriptions are denoted by (brackets) or <!--HTML comment 
tags--> or whatever and m.WP learns to ignore them and use the rest of the 
description.

Longer term options:

3. Have a separate (multilingual) field for usage notes and have the user 
interface display both the description and the usage notes in the drop down 
options
4. Where Qids or Pids are included in descriptions translate these into text 
links using the appropriate language label for that property or item. This 
should allow all usage notes to be incorporated into descriptions in a way 
which doesn't look strange when these are reused by m.WP.


TASK DETAIL
  https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97566

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To: Filceolaire
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Lydia_Pintscher, Aklapper, kaldari, Wikidata-bugs, aude



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