present the short AutoDesc of an item when editing its description
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	• Spage
	Aug 20 2015, 9:22 PM

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As I write this, the description for Q2045965 (Padma Sachdev) is

Early life

Indian author and autobiographer (*1940); Padma Shri and Sahitya Akademi Award; spouse of Surinder Singh ♀

When someone clicks [Edit] on Q2045965, Wikidata should present that AutoDesc short description so that:

the editor can copy & paste from it
the editor can see some standardization (T106023)
the AutoDesc short description sets a quality bar that the editor's manual description needs to surpass.

Status	Assigned	Task
Resolved	Jdlrobson	T101719 [EPIC] Push wikidata descriptions to stable.
Declined	None	T106023 Wikidata description standardization
Declined	Lydia_Pintscher	T109772 present the short AutoDesc of an item when editing its description

• Spage raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.

• Spage updated the task description. (Show Details)

We'll not be having automatic descriptions on Wikidata built into Wikibase at this point. Among the reasons:

There are a lot more pressing issues to take care of
They still need a lot of work to be acceptable in terms of quality
They still need a lot of work to give good results in the large number of languages Wikidata intends to support

Sorry.