Yair_rand added a subscriber: Yair_rand. Yair_rand added a comment. In https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T90765#1366492, @aude wrote:
> how common are these "instructions" in wikidata? I realize the items for > "male" and "female" have them, but then they have no site links > (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6581097) so think would never appear in the > wikipedia app. My guess would be at least a couple dozen with sitelinks. People have been using descriptions to prevent mistaken uses of the instance-of property. For example, "person" (Q215627) has a note pointing editors to Q5 for instance-of uses. In https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T90765#1357678, @Mhurd wrote: > If "description" is overloaded to also contain internal usage notes following > some delimiter, we now not only have to strip these notes out in every single > place the description needs to be displayed (already half a dozen places in > the apps alone), but we //also// then have to strip the internal usage notes > and delimiter out when a user edits the actual description, and we'd have to > re-add the internal usage note and delimiter *back* in when we saves the > description - otherwise editing would destroy the internal usage note. > > Presuming all of that, say a pre-existing note of, oh, 200 characters already > exists - this means when we present the editing interface, we actually only > have //56// characters which the user can use for a description. Say the > internal usage note is 256 chars - this means we //cannot// have a > description *at all*. I don't follow. Why not just set the character limit to 256 minus the number of characters used by the usage note? I think it's reasonable to assume that that will be enough space. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T90765 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Vibhabamba, Yair_rand Cc: Yair_rand, Ainali, Lydia_Pintscher, kaldari, JKatzWMF, Fjalapeno, jeblad, aude, bearND, Tbayer, Rberchie, hoo, Krenair, Qgil, Vibhabamba, Mhurd, Aklapper, Sylvain_WMFr, Cxyshine, AlexWang, Wikidata-bugs, Ryasmeen, Daniel_Mietchen, Dbrant, Matanya _______________________________________________ Wikidata-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-bugs
