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On enwiki, action API requests with prop=description should only return the local description
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Description

Wikidata descriptions can no longer be shown for content on enwiki. They should be excluded from the action API responses as well.

Acceptance criteria

  • All requests with prop=description on enwiki return a local description if it exists
  • Requests with prop=description on enwiki never return a Wikidata description even if it exists
  • Requests with prop=description still include descriptionsource in the response

Event Timeline

eprodromou triaged this task as Medium priority.

Change 627545 had a related patch set uploaded (by Will Doran; owner: Ppchelko):
[mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase@master] Add option to force only local short descriptions

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/627545