| JKatzWMF added a comment. |
@Sjoerddebruin thanks for your comment! The short answer to your question is that we don't know for sure, but maybe describing our thought process will be helpful and I am curious to hear your perspective.
The thought was that the ratio of visibility to editability of wikidata descriptions is becoming skewed, potentially leading towards a higher incentive and higher rate of vandalism. A savvy vandal could change wikidata and it would appear on wikipedia mobile search results and (soon) under every article title (as described here), but the average editor might not know how to revert it. From a philosophical perspective, there is also the principle that there shouldn't be anything in the article without at least a direct path to editing.
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