Amir, That discussion is not so much about undeploying the {{short description}} feature, it is about WMF following up on what they undertook to do to disable display of unsourced and unchecked Wikidata content in a way that suggests it is Wikipedia content once Wikipedia met the WMFs unilaterally imposed conditions against Wikipedia project consensus. I would have expected the closing to have been worked out ahead of time, and a mere formality, but it seems that interminable squabbling is possible even in as straight forward appearing a situation as this.
Cheers,
Peter
From: Abstract-Wikipedia [mailto:abstract-wikipedia-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Amir E. Aharoni
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בתאריך יום ה׳, 30 ביולי 2020 ב-13:08 מאת Peter Southwood <peter.southwood@telkomsa.net>:
Amir,
“some people are now thinking of undeploying the {{short description}} feature”
Who? Where is this being discussed? I am not sure what you mean by “undeploying the feature”
Agree that it was a badly handled problem and massive time-sink, but would prefer that the baby is not thrown out with the bathwater.
Cheers,
Peter
On https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(WMF) now, and a lot of different and contradicting opinions are thrown around there.
