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In T248457#6329589 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248457#6329589>, @RexxS wrote: > What happens, though, is that it adds content that may not abide by the local policies and that is a fundamental flaw. I don’t understand how a five-word sentence might not be in line with local politics. And I also don't understand why this policy cannot be negotiated with Wikidata? > The description fields are monolingual, so only affect a single language. Yes, it is monolingual, but we have about ten monolingual projects, which in the future will also most likely be able to use Wikidata. And they may have cross-articles. > They are also unable to cite their source, which is major disadvantage for serious use. There are no sources in your template either, this is not the subject of conversation. > The mistake is to think that Wikidata is the best place to store the authoritative version of a subject's description for each language. The best place for that is on the individual Wikis and these changes are a step towards making that happen. I think you are wrong, Wikidata is the best place to store this kind of statistical information, information that can be used by many projects, not only Wikimedia projects. It was created for this. And given that Wikipedia is a place where content typing exists, as opposed to Wikidata, Wikipedia should be integrated into Wikidata for control these fields, not separated. And even if we imagine for a second that you are right, it should be implemented differently, not by a template. It is also worth remembering that people fill in the fields focusing on large languages, and that English is displayed by default. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248457 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Iniquity Cc: Iniquity, DannyH, ppelberg, MichaelMaggs, Dreamy_Jazz, Majavah, kaldari, Certes, Xeriphas1994, Mathglot, Bencemac, Galobtter, Tgr, Trialpears, Jonesey95, RexxS, QEDK, Pppery, Lydia_Pintscher, JJMC89, DannyS712, Aklapper, Alsee, Liuxinyu970226, Akuckartz, darthmon_wmde, Nandana, lucamauri, Lahi, Gq86, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, LawExplorer, _jensen, rosalieper, Scott_WUaS, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Mbch331
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