| Izno added a comment. |
In T140891#2479890, @Lydia_Pintscher wrote:I just discussed with Daniel if we actually need Special:EntitiesWithoutDescription and Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel They lost their usefulness mostly as Wikidata grew. If you want to find items without a label in a given language the resultset is in most cases too large to be useful. A tool like https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-terminator/ is needed to help find the items where a label or description is actually important to have.
The one remaining usecase for the special pages is then doing this for properties. Here the number is manageable and useful. So we can optimize for this case and remove the item case.
Generally agreed with the rationale here, but we'll get questions from newbies "where did this page go"/"there's one for properties but not items, why?".
Maybe instead the special page can be extended to enable a more powerful query? You identify that there exist tools that can do this, and there is obviously a use case for identifying these pages, and I think there's enough reason to have support for an out-of-the-box solution for e.g. 3rd parties per hoo.
Cc: Izno, Lydia_Pintscher, matej_suchanek, gerritbot, hoo, Aklapper, Zppix, daniel, D3r1ck01, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Mbch331
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