We should be displaying article descriptions, locally, from short descriptions on English Wikipedia, or from Wikidata otherwise.
But we aren't:
We did implement this feature, but might have inadvertently broken it again at some point.
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Change #1249383 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jsn.sherman; author: Jsn.sherman):
[mediawiki/extensions/PersonalDashboard@master] riskyArticleEdits: api page data is list, not obj
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I am reviewing this patch, and it appears that some descriptions are still not showing up in my local environment.
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It looks like what's happening here is that the pages that we're getting based on the generator is not quite what you'd expect:
So, there's a little bit of work to do to straighten that out.
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Change #1249383 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/PersonalDashboard@master] riskyArticleEdits: show page descriptions
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Change #1250581 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jsn.sherman; author: Jsn.sherman):
[mediawiki/extensions/PersonalDashboard@wmf/1.46.0-wmf.19] riskyArticleEdits: show page descriptions
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Change #1250581 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/PersonalDashboard@wmf/1.46.0-wmf.19] riskyArticleEdits: show page descriptions
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Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-03-11T20:27:48Z] <jsn@deploy2002> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1250581|riskyArticleEdits: show page descriptions (T419442)]], [[gerrit:1250582|Fix Instrumentation on mobile view (T419517)]], [[gerrit:1250632|ext.wikimediaEvents: Updated Test Kitchen impact test experiment (T407570)]]
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Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-03-11T20:29:58Z] <jsn@deploy2002> jsn, sfaci: Backport for [[gerrit:1250581|riskyArticleEdits: show page descriptions (T419442)]], [[gerrit:1250582|Fix Instrumentation on mobile view (T419517)]], [[gerrit:1250632|ext.wikimediaEvents: Updated Test Kitchen impact test experiment (T407570)]] synced to the testservers (see https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug). Changes can now be verified there.
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Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-03-11T20:38:25Z] <jsn@deploy2002> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1250581|riskyArticleEdits: show page descriptions (T419442)]], [[gerrit:1250582|Fix Instrumentation on mobile view (T419517)]], [[gerrit:1250632|ext.wikimediaEvents: Updated Test Kitchen impact test experiment (T407570)]] (duration: 10m 37s)