DannyH added a comment.
Hi, thanks for your patience. If the current community discussion comes to consensus to switch to just pulling short descriptions from German WP, then we are willing to follow the same steps that we did with English. There's a two-step process for switching over, so that the short descriptions don't suddenly disappear while you're writing the new descriptions. First, we can enable the SHORTDESC magic word, which you can put on articles and start writing short descriptions. For articles with a SHORTDESC description, our features and apps will use the description from German WP. For articles that don't have a SHORTDESC description, we fall back to using the Wikidata description. Once there are enough short descriptions, we can make the switch to only pulling descriptions from German WP. At that point, for articles that don't have a SHORTDESC description, there won't be any description displayed. When we did this with English WP, we asked for 2 million short descriptions before we made the switch (about a third of the articles). German WP currently has 2.5 million articles, so I think 850,000 short descriptions will be enough. To make that easier, you can feel free to populate the SHORTDESC descriptions using a bot that copies all of the existing descriptions from Wikidata. If the community chooses to do that, then we can get to the second step quickly. English WP decided to write all of the new descriptions by hand, so it took a while before we took the second step. We won't do anything until the community has come to consensus. If it helps the discussion, you can feel free to let people know what we've said here. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279829 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: DannyH Cc: MisterSynergy, Carn, Schniggendiller, Urbanecm, Majavah, FriedhelmW, Ghilt, DannyH, Bugreporter, Count_Count, RhinosF1, Aklapper, XanonymusX, Zabe, Invadibot, LaMagiaaa, maantietaja, Akuckartz, CptViraj, Dibya, 94rain, DannyS712, Nandana, Tks4Fish, Lahi, Gq86, GoranSMilovanovic, Jayprakash12345, QZanden, Kizule, LawExplorer, DatGuy, Devwaker, Niklitov, _jensen, rosalieper, JEumerus, Scott_WUaS, Ananthsubray, Superzerocool, Tulsi_Bhagat, Wong128hk, Luke081515, SimmeD, Wikidata-bugs, Snowolf, Base, aude, Dcljr, Addshore, Matanya, Mbch331, Jay8g, Krenair
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