The action=query&prop=description API doesn't provide description nor descriptionsource fields in the Wikipedia beta cluster anymore. (It still works in production at this time.)
Steps to Reproduce:
https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=description&titles=San%20Francisco
Actual Results:
Output does not include description nor descriptionsource fields.
{ "batchcomplete": "", "query": { "pages": { "5680": { "pageid": 5680, "ns": 0, "title": "San Francisco" } } } }
Expected Results:
Output includes description nor descriptionsource fields.
Should be similar to production (but different page id, of course). It should be something like:
"batchcomplete": "", "query": { "pages": { "5680": { "pageid": 5680, "ns": 0, "title": "San Francisco", "description": "City in the USA", "descriptionsource": "central" } } } }
Checks done so far:
- This Wikipedia page does not have a local short description.
- https://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Q500978 does have a description and the Wikidata API returns it.
- See P11087 showing null returned for $termLookup->getDescription($itemId, 'en'). Maybe some kind of cache corruption or a bug in Wikibase extension?
- Also tried a few other pages on the WP beta cluster. All missing the description.