| Tgr added a comment. |
In T184000#3987414, @Addshore wrote:So, again overriding the current wikidata description here is a breaking change.
We should not do that.
If we want to add something new, such as an article description, lets add it under a new key called "article-description" instead of redefining something that already exists and has a clear definition.
Is it actually breaking anything, though? Clients want a description, they get one. (A better one, if we do this whole override thing on account of considering the local description superior.) In what possible scenario would that cause a problem?
The only one I can think of is when a client feeds this information back to Wikidata, e.g. by showing editable article descriptions, and I'm not aware of anything doing that (there was work on it for the official apps in T90765 and T145813 but not enabled yet).
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