@Nirzar, would this be only for the first edit pencil?

@dr0ptp4kt yep. only for the first one.

What needs analysis here?
From a technical perspective we could either:

• make edit this a link that points to https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:SetLabelDescriptionAliases/Q125904/en [easy - about 1 points]
• We could also provide editing support within that workflow using the ForeignAPI (harder but possible 5 points)

As firsts step we need to do this 1 pointer

make edit this a link that points to https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:SetLabelDescriptionAliases/Q125904/en [easy - about 1 points]

@Jdlrobson, are you saying the link from within the MobileFrontend JavaScript-based editor like in the mock is about a 1 pointer?

@Jdlrobson also notice the article title being formatted differently on a grey background to indicate that it's not editable. so again, separation of chrome and content

In T141230#2555431, @dr0ptp4kt wrote:

@Jdlrobson, are you saying the link from within the MobileFrontend JavaScript-based editor like in the mock is about a 1 pointer?

Not quite 1 but in that ball park given it's just a link to another page - although we should be careful to ensure the user knows they will leave the editor and go to an external site. I see this as a design problem.

As a Wikidata editor, I would like to say that we already got a lot of description vandalism. What kind of influence will this have?

@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.

It's definitely a concern to be thinking about. Showing an edit link in Wikipedia will drive traffic there.

If we implemented this we'd need to make sure

1. it's configurable so can be shut off if and when needed
2. We should make this logged in only to start with
3. We could only show this to a sample of users to get a sense of the impact of vandalism this might cause.

On long term if we do find this to be a problem we should explore ways to help editors curate this and limit the vandalism that can occur.