Deskana added a comment. In https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97566#1259794, @Lydia_Pintscher wrote:
> It is not just about the time of my team. It is about the effort we're > putting on the community as well to maintain this information on all items > when it is only needed on a very small number of them. I'm not sure I understand this. If an item doesn't need this information, then it can simply not be added. No extra maintenance needed. If an item does need this information, then it's already been added to the description, so there is also no extra maintenance needed. > If we're adapting Wikidata's api to also provide a sanitized description or > leave it to the client either way we need to have a discussion in the > community to agree that "anything in brackets can be stripped" is ok and can > be agreed upon as an editing standard. I'm happy to do that. Right. This is why I suggested the API providing both descriptions, then the consumer can choose which they like. For example, the PageTerms module already provides some support for this. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Jellyfish&prop=pageterms&wbptterms=description This query provides //only// the description, unsanitised. It could continue to do so, for backwards compatibility. You could add support for, say, wbptterms=sanitisedescription, which provides a sanitised description. > Which of those two to chose for me depends on if we believe most clients will > need the stripped version or if they don't care. I don't know to be honest. > The biggest usecase of descriptions for 3rd parties is tagging and there > you'd want the full descriptions. Right. I don't think any of us know that right now. The advantage of the above solution is that it's totally backwards compatible. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97566 REPLY HANDLER ACTIONS Reply to comment or attach files, or !close, !claim, !unsubscribe or !assign <username>. EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Deskana Cc: Jdforrester-WMF, Pigsonthewing, Tfinc, Deskana, Mhurd, Lydia_Pintscher, Aklapper, kaldari, Wikidata-bugs, aude _______________________________________________ Wikidata-bugs mailing list Wikidata-bugs@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-bugs
