But wouldn't it be better to keep the dump as it is, for those who don't want triple size (just inventing a number here), and have one separate, or even per-language, dump with just the automated descriptions, for those who want that?

On Mon Feb 09 2015 at 11:21:56 Daniel Kinzler <daniel.kinzler@wikimedia.de> wrote:
Am 09.02.2015 um 12:08 schrieb Magnus Manske:
> Considering that "hardcoded" descriptions (written manually, or generated
> automatically) for all items in all ~290 languages would likely make up most of
> the data dump file, this seems somewhat impractical :-)

It's entirely practical, and apparently what at least some consumers of our
dumps expect and desire.


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