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class="infobox-title">WikiProject Short descriptions</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Farm-Fresh_quill.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/Farm-Fresh_quill.png" decoding="async" width="32" height="32" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="32" data-file-height="32"/></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WPSHORTDESC" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:WPSHORTDESC">WP:WPSHORTDESC</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WPSHORTDESC" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia talk:WPSHORTDESC">WT:WPSHORTDESC</a> (talk)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorization" title="Wikipedia:Categorization">Categories</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Category:WikiProject_Short_descriptions" title="Category:WikiProject Short descriptions">WikiProject Short descriptions</a>, <a href="/wiki/Category:Pages_with_short_description" title="Category:Pages with short description">Pages with short description</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Guide" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide">Project banner template</a></th><td class="infobox-data">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:WikiProject_Short_descriptions" title="Template:WikiProject Short descriptions">WikiProject Short descriptions</a>}}</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Has goals?</th><td class="infobox-data">Populate all articles with short descriptions, and improve existing descriptions</td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238436933"><table class="plainlinks ombox ombox-notice" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/40px-Information_icon4.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/60px-Information_icon4.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/80px-Information_icon4.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="620" data-file-height="620"/></span></span></td><td class="mbox-text">Some users are working on the <b>top 3000 most viewed pages without short descriptions</b>. Want to help? <b><a href="/wiki/User:Uhai/Pages_without_short_descriptions_by_view_count" title="User:Uhai/Pages without short descriptions by view count">Contribute here</a></b>!</td></tr></tbody></table> <p>This is a project to populate all Wikipedia mainspace articles with a suitable <b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Short_description" title="Wikipedia:Short description">short description</a></b>, and to improve existing descriptions. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc"/> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="State_of_the_project" data-mw-thread-id="h-State_of_the_project"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-State_of_the_project"></span>State of the project<span data-mw-comment-end="h-State_of_the_project"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Short_descriptions&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: State of the project"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There are a total of 6,955,402 content pages in the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NS0" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NS0">main namespace</a>, of which 364,530 are disambiguation pages. </p><p>Out of 6,590,872 articles — 5,818,453 <a href="/wiki/Category:Articles_with_short_description" title="Category:Articles with short description">have a short description</a> and 772,419 <span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=-hastemplate%3A%22Short+description%22&title=Special%3ASearch&ns0=1"><b>do not</b> have a short description.</a></span> </p> <div style="width: 600px;"><span class="nowrap">5,818,453 / 6,590,872</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; background-color: none; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #0000FF; color:inherit; width: 88%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div><p><b>88.28% complete</b> </p><p>This <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=insource%3A%22Short+description%22+hastemplate%3A%22Short+description%22&title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&advancedSearch-current=%7B%7D&ns0=1&ns118=1&ns119=1">search</a> finds all articles that have had the <code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Short_description" title="Template:Short description">short description</a>}}</code> template added. The remaining descriptions are generated by infoboxes or other templates. </p> <div class="thumb tleft" style=""><div class="thumbinner" style="width:602px"><div class="thumbcaption">Recent progress</div><div class="thumbimage noresize" style="width:600px;"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238436933"><table class="box-Notice plainlinks ombox ombox-notice" role="presentation" style="width:100%;margin:0;"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/40px-Information_icon4.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/60px-Information_icon4.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/80px-Information_icon4.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="620" data-file-height="620"/></span></span></td><td class="mbox-text" style="text-align: left;">Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. Updates on reimplementing the Graph extension, which will be known as the Chart extension, can be found on <a class="external text" href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/charts/">Phabricator</a> and on <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Chart" class="extiw" title="mw:Extension:Chart">MediaWiki.org</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:right"> <caption>Approximate statistics since July 2020 </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Date </th> <th scope="col">Articles with<br/>short descriptions </th> <th scope="col">Total number of articles<br/>(including disambiguation pages) </th> <th scope="col">Percentage of articles<br/>with short descriptions </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">8 July 2020 </th> <td>1,100,000 </td> <td>6,115,000 </td> <td>18.0% </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">29 December 2020 </th> <td>1,440,000 </td> <td>6,215,000 </td> <td>23.2% </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">15 April 2021 </th> <td>2,027,000 </td> <td>6,282,000 </td> <td>32.3% </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">19 October 2021 </th> <td>2,478,000 </td> <td>6,396,000 </td> <td>38.7% </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">12 November 2021 </th> <td>3,791,000 </td> <td>6,406,000 </td> <td>59.2% </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">15 February 2022 </th> <td>4,009,000 </td> <td>6,452,000 </td> <td>62.1% </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">23 May 2022 </th> <td>4,364,000 </td> <td>6,503,000 </td> <td>67.1% </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">3 January 2023 </th> <td>4,781,930 </td> <td>6,597,400 </td> <td>72.5% </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">25 September 2023 </th> <td>5,096,525 </td> <td>6,719,582 </td> <td>75.8% </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">25 February 2024 </th> <td>5,315,618 </td> <td>6,788,970 </td> <td>78.3% </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">25 June 2024 </th> <td>5,517,348 </td> <td>6,840,932 </td> <td>80.7% </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">26 September 2024 </th> <td>5,649,638 </td> <td>6,887,859 </td> <td>82% </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">31 December 2024 </th> <td>5,760,777 </td> <td>6,932,733 </td> <td>83.1% </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><br/> Note: The article counts prior to March 2023 are rounded values taken from <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia#The_data_set" title="Wikipedia:Size of Wikipedia">Size of Wikipedia: The data set</a>. </p><p>See <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Short_descriptions/Progress" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Short descriptions/Progress">checklists of current progress</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Progress_in_biographies" data-mw-thread-id="h-Progress_in_biographies-State_of_the_project"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Progress_in_biographies-State_of_the_project"></span>Progress in biographies<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Progress_in_biographies-State_of_the_project"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Short_descriptions&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Progress in biographies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div style="width: 600px;"><span class="nowrap">1,854,646 / 2,104,220</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; background-color: none; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #00F; color:inherit; width: 88%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> <p><b>88.139% complete</b> — Last updated: 31 December 2024 </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Why_help_to_make_sure_that_all_articles_have_a_short_description?" data-mw-thread-id="h-Why_help_to_make_sure_that_all_articles_have_a_short_description?"><span id="Why_help_to_make_sure_that_all_articles_have_a_short_description.3F"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Why_help_to_make_sure_that_all_articles_have_a_short_description?"></span>Why help to make sure that all articles have a short description?<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Why_help_to_make_sure_that_all_articles_have_a_short_description?"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Short_descriptions&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Why help to make sure that all articles have a short description?"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Short descriptions appear in Wikipedia mobile and some desktop searches, and help users identify the desired article. When viewing an article, some mobile <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_App" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia App">Wikipedia Apps</a> also display the description below the page title. </p><p>Articles that are lacking a short description appear in search result lists simply by their titles, with no annotation. If all titles were self-evidently clear, it would be immediately obvious which one relates to the article of interest, but very often that is not the case. Titles alone can be ambiguous or otherwise not comprehensible to non-specialist readers, as well as to readers who are not fluent speakers of English. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="How_to_write_a_short_description" data-mw-thread-id="h-How_to_write_a_short_description"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-How_to_write_a_short_description"></span>How to write a short description<span data-mw-comment-end="h-How_to_write_a_short_description"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Short_descriptions&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: How to write a short description"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main page: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Short_description" title="Wikipedia:Short description">Wikipedia:Short description</a></div> <p>The easiest way to add and edit short descriptions on desktop is to make use of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortdesc_helper" title="Wikipedia:Shortdesc helper">Shortdesc helper</a>. Alternatively, in the source code editor insert the <a href="/wiki/Template:Short_description" title="Template:Short description">short description template</a> to the very top of the page, above all other article headers and templates. The format to use is <code>{{Short description|Your short description here}}.</code> </p><p>If a short description would be redundant you can use "none", thus: <code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Short_description" title="Template:Short description">Short description</a>|none}}</code>. See <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SDNONE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SDNONE">WP:SDNONE</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Adding_and_editing_short_descriptions" data-mw-thread-id="h-Adding_and_editing_short_descriptions"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Adding_and_editing_short_descriptions"></span>Adding and editing short descriptions<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Adding_and_editing_short_descriptions"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Short_descriptions&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Adding and editing short descriptions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Short descriptions can be added and edited using the standard wiki markup editor (edit source), but it is often easier to enable <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortdesc_helper" title="Wikipedia:Shortdesc helper">Short description helper</a> in Preferences | Gadgets, in the Editing section. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Editing_using_the_Shortdesc_helper_gadget" data-mw-thread-id="h-Editing_using_the_Shortdesc_helper_gadget-Adding_and_editing_short_descriptions"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Editing_using_the_Shortdesc_helper_gadget-Adding_and_editing_short_descriptions"></span>Editing using the <i>Shortdesc helper</i> gadget<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Editing_using_the_Shortdesc_helper_gadget-Adding_and_editing_short_descriptions"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Short_descriptions&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Editing using the Shortdesc helper gadget"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Shortdesc_helper_editing_screenshot.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/09/Shortdesc_helper_editing_screenshot.png/260px-Shortdesc_helper_editing_screenshot.png" decoding="async" width="260" height="97" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/09/Shortdesc_helper_editing_screenshot.png/390px-Shortdesc_helper_editing_screenshot.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/09/Shortdesc_helper_editing_screenshot.png/520px-Shortdesc_helper_editing_screenshot.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="280"/></a><figcaption>Editing with shortdesc helper</figcaption></figure> <p>If the article currently has no short description, you will see a message to that effect. Click on Add, type in a new short description (or drag and drop from the article text, editing as appropriate), then Save. If a short description already exists you can Edit it, or click on Export to push the text, as-is, to Wikidata. </p><p>If Wikipedia has no short description, but there is an existing Wikidata description, you have the option to Import the Wikidata text as-is into Wikipedia (<a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Can_I_use_the_Wikidata_text_if_it_is_good?">not generally recommended</a>), or to Import and Edit (preferred). </p><p>A cogwheel icon that appears after you click Edit provides various usage options. By default, adding a short description to a Wikipedia article also adds the description to Wikidata if missing there. This can be changed in the settings. To edit a short description that is already on Wikidata, click on one of the links (not shown in this example) in the Wikidata item description or Q-number to open the item at Wikidata. </p><p>Difference in formatting conventions: </p> <ul><li>Wikidata: text always starts with a lower case letter;</li> <li>Wikipedia: short description normally starts with an upper case letter (Sentence case).</li></ul> <p>When a description does not yet exist on Wikidata and a new short description is supplied all in lower case, Shortdesc helper sends the text in lower case to Wikidata while simultaneously formatting the short description correctly in Sentence case for the Wikipedia page. However, when exporting a modified short description to Wikidata it is necessary to go to Wikidata and manually edit the description there to change the first uppercase letter to lower case. </p><p><i>Shortdesc helper</i> will provide a standardised edit summary describing the edit. A custom edit summary can be added using the "summary" button. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_useful_scripts" data-mw-thread-id="h-Other_useful_scripts-Adding_and_editing_short_descriptions"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Other_useful_scripts-Adding_and_editing_short_descriptions"></span>Other useful scripts<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Other_useful_scripts-Adding_and_editing_short_descriptions"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Short_descriptions&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Other useful scripts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The script <a href="/wiki/User:SD0001/shortdescs-in-category" title="User:SD0001/shortdescs-in-category">User:SD0001/shortdescs-in-category</a> shows the short descriptions of pages while viewing a category</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/User:GhostInTheMachine/SDlinkBuilder" title="User:GhostInTheMachine/SDlinkBuilder">SDlinkBuilder</a> user script helps you build a TODO list - taking all of the article links in a page and showing their current short descriptions.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="What_if_I_want_to_see_the_text_that_is_used_on_Wikidata?" data-mw-thread-id="h-What_if_I_want_to_see_the_text_that_is_used_on_Wikidata?-Adding_and_editing_short_descriptions"><span id="What_if_I_want_to_see_the_text_that_is_used_on_Wikidata.3F"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-What_if_I_want_to_see_the_text_that_is_used_on_Wikidata?-Adding_and_editing_short_descriptions"></span>What if I want to see the text that is used on Wikidata?<span data-mw-comment-end="h-What_if_I_want_to_see_the_text_that_is_used_on_Wikidata?-Adding_and_editing_short_descriptions"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Short_descriptions&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: What if I want to see the text that is used on Wikidata?"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Wikidata maintains its own texts which are not linked in any way with Wikipedia short descriptions (although <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortdesc_helper" title="Wikipedia:Shortdesc helper">Short description helper</a> can display the Wikidata text to help editors construct a suitable description for Wikipedia). Wikipedia page <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Short_description" title="Wikipedia:Short description">Short descriptions</a> and <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Description" class="extiw" title="wikidata:Help:Description">Wikidata item descriptions</a> serve <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SD-VS-WIKIDATA" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SD-VS-WIKIDATA">different purposes</a> and are not required to be the same. If you want to view the Wikidata item description, you can: </p> <ul><li>Configure Short description helper to show the Wikidata text at all times; or</li> <li>Click on the Wikidata link in the sidebar to go directly to Wikidata, where you can view and edit the information.</li></ul> <p>Neither the Wikidata item description nor the Wikipedia short description should give a definition of the subject covered by the article; see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SDNOTDEF" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SDNOTDEF">WP:SDNOTDEF</a> and <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Description#Descriptions_are_not_definitions" class="extiw" title="wikidata:Help:Description">Wikidata:Help:Description#Descriptions are not definitions</a> for more details. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Auto-generated_and_bot-generated_descriptions" data-mw-thread-id="h-Auto-generated_and_bot-generated_descriptions"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Auto-generated_and_bot-generated_descriptions"></span><span class="anchor" id="Automation"></span><span class="anchor" id="Auto-generated_and_bot_generated_Descriptions"></span> Auto-generated and bot-generated descriptions<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Auto-generated_and_bot-generated_descriptions"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Short_descriptions&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Auto-generated and bot-generated descriptions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As the short description is article content, any bot or template generated short description may be overridden with a <i>better</i> short description by an editor. If there is a dispute about whether the new description is better, discuss on the article's talk page. If the lead section of the article is so confused that it is not possible to work out what the article is about, leave an appropriate maintenance tag or, if you can, fix it yourself. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Auto-generated_from_infoboxes_and_other_templates" data-mw-thread-id="h-Auto-generated_from_infoboxes_and_other_templates-Auto-generated_and_bot-generated_descriptions"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Auto-generated_from_infoboxes_and_other_templates-Auto-generated_and_bot-generated_descriptions"></span>Auto-generated from infoboxes and other templates<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Auto-generated_from_infoboxes_and_other_templates-Auto-generated_and_bot-generated_descriptions"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Short_descriptions&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Auto-generated from infoboxes and other templates"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable selfref">See also: <a href="/wiki/Category:Templates_that_generate_short_descriptions" title="Category:Templates that generate short descriptions">Category:Templates that generate short descriptions</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Already_done" data-mw-thread-id="h-Already_done-Auto-generated_from_infoboxes_and_other_templates"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Already_done-Auto-generated_from_infoboxes_and_other_templates"></span>Already done<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Already_done-Auto-generated_from_infoboxes_and_other_templates"></span></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Short_descriptions&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Already done"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="plainlinks metadata ambox mbox-small-left ambox-notice" role="presentation" style="width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/20px-Information_icon4.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/30px-Information_icon4.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/40px-Information_icon4.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="620" data-file-height="620"/></span></span></td><td class="mbox-text" style="width: auto;"><div class="mbox-text-span">This list is <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Lists#Incomplete_lists" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists">incomplete</a>; you can help by <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Short_descriptions&action=edit">adding missing items</a>.</div></td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Template </th> <th scope="col">Approximate number of articles </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Disambiguation_page_short_description" title="Template:Disambiguation page short description">Disambiguation page short description</a>}}</code> </th> <td>348,368 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Infobox_settlement" title="Template:Infobox settlement">Infobox settlement</a>}}</code> </th> <td>554,768 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Infobox_Australian_place" title="Template:Infobox Australian place">Infobox Australian place</a>}}</code> </th> <td>15,236 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Infobox_element" title="Template:Infobox element">Infobox element</a>}}</code> </th> <td>334 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Infobox_number" title="Template:Infobox number">Infobox number</a>}}</code> </th> <td>404 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Infobox_musical_artist" title="Template:Infobox musical artist">Infobox musical artist</a>}}</code> </th> <td>120,036 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Infobox_musical_interval" title="Template:Infobox musical interval">Infobox musical interval</a>}}</code> </th> <td>42 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Day" title="Template:Day">Day</a>}}</code> </th> <td>365 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Year_nav" title="Template:Year nav">Year nav</a>}}</code> </th> <td>2,751 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Given_name" title="Template:Given name">Given name</a>}}</code> </th> <td>17,619 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Surname" title="Template:Surname">Surname</a>}}</code> </th> <td>64,930 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Infobox_museum" title="Template:Infobox museum">Infobox museum</a>}}</code> </th> <td>3000–4000 / 10,105 (when Type includes one of: Museum / Hall / Gallery / Center) </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Infobox_hospital" title="Template:Infobox hospital">Infobox hospital</a>}}</code> </th> <td>6,162 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Infobox_church" title="Template:Infobox church">Infobox church</a>}}</code> </th> <td>14,365 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Infobox_television_episode" title="Template:Infobox television episode">Infobox television episode</a>}}</code> </th> <td>11,397 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Year_nav_topic" title="Template:Year nav topic">Year nav topic</a>}}</code> </th> <td>6,997 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Infobox_album" title="Template:Infobox album">Infobox album</a>}}</code> </th> <td>160,085 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Infobox_professional_wrestling_team" title="Template:Infobox professional wrestling team">Infobox professional wrestling team</a>}}</code> </th> <td>651 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Infobox_kana" title="Template:Infobox kana">Infobox kana</a>}}</code> </th> <td>57 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Infobox_dam" title="Template:Infobox dam">Infobox dam</a>}}</code> </th> <td>5,500 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Infobox_Unicode_block" title="Template:Infobox Unicode block">Infobox Unicode block</a>}}</code> </th> <td>338 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Infobox_Doctor_Who_episode" title="Template:Infobox Doctor Who episode">Infobox Doctor Who episode</a>}}</code> </th> <td>479 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Infobox_radio_station" title="Template:Infobox radio station">Infobox radio station</a>}}</code> </th> <td>21,685 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Humorous_essay" title="Template:Humorous essay">Humorous essay</a>}}</code> </th> <td>226 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Wikipedia_how-to" title="Template:Wikipedia how-to">Wikipedia how-to</a>}}</code> </th> <td>328 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Infobox_football_club_season" title="Template:Infobox football club season">Infobox football club season</a>}}</code> </th> <td>19,446 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Infobox_NRHP" title="Template:Infobox NRHP">Infobox NRHP</a>}}</code> </th> <td>72,000 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Infobox_professional_wrestling_event_series" title="Template:Infobox professional wrestling event series">Infobox professional wrestling event series</a>}}</code> </th> <td>227 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Infobox_royalty" title="Template:Infobox royalty">Infobox royalty</a>}}</code> </th> <td>21,000 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Infobox_rugby_club_season" title="Template:Infobox rugby club season">Infobox rugby club season</a>}}</code> </th> <td>108 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Infobox_television_station" title="Template:Infobox television station">Infobox television station</a>}}</code> </th> <td>3,700 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Infobox_UK_place" title="Template:Infobox UK place">Infobox UK place</a>}}</code> </th> <td>25,000 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Information_page" title="Template:Information page">Information page</a>}}</code> </th> <td>? / 354 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Infobox_song" title="Template:Infobox song">Infobox song</a>}}</code> </th> <td>Some portion of 70,000 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Infobox_sports_season" title="Template:Infobox sports season">Infobox sports season</a>}}</code> </th> <td>5,200 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Infobox_video_game" title="Template:Infobox video game">Infobox video game</a>}}</code> </th> <td>27,000 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Infobox_NFL_biography" title="Template:Infobox NFL biography">Infobox NFL biography</a>}}</code> </th> <td>21,000 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Infobox_baseball_team_season" title="Template:Infobox baseball team season">Infobox baseball team season</a>}}</code> </th> <td>3,219 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Infobox_RNA_family" title="Template:Infobox RNA family">Infobox RNA family</a>}}</code> </th> <td>1,200 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="To_do_next" data-mw-thread-id="h-To_do_next-Auto-generated_from_infoboxes_and_other_templates"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-To_do_next-Auto-generated_from_infoboxes_and_other_templates"></span>To do next<span data-mw-comment-end="h-To_do_next-Auto-generated_from_infoboxes_and_other_templates"></span></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Short_descriptions&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: To do next"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Name</th> <th># of articles total</th> <th># without short description </th></tr> <tr> <td><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Infobox_book" title="Template:Infobox book">Infobox book</a>}}</code></td> <td>51,000</td> <td>14,800 </td></tr> <tr> <td><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Infobox_station" title="Template:Infobox station">Infobox station</a>}}</code></td> <td>55,000</td> <td>9,800 </td></tr> <tr> <td><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Infobox_mountain" title="Template:Infobox mountain">Infobox mountain</a>}}</code></td> <td>28,000</td> <td>9,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Infobox_election" title="Template:Infobox election">Infobox election</a>}}</code></td> <td>30,300</td> <td>7,360 </td></tr> <tr> <td><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Infobox_military_installation" title="Template:Infobox military installation">Infobox military installation</a>}}</code></td> <td>9,600</td> <td>4,800 </td></tr> <tr> <td><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Infobox_religious_building" title="Template:Infobox religious building">Infobox religious building</a>}}</code></td> <td>12,000</td> <td>3,800 </td></tr> <tr> <td><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Infobox_sports_competition_event" title="Template:Infobox sports competition event">Infobox sports competition event</a>}}</code></td> <td>11,500</td> <td>3,100 </td></tr> <tr> <td><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Infobox_locomotive" title="Template:Infobox locomotive">Infobox locomotive</a>}}</code></td> <td>4,700</td> <td>2,800 </td></tr> <tr> <td><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Infobox_planet" title="Template:Infobox planet">Infobox planet</a>}}</code></td> <td>4,600</td> <td>2,400 </td></tr> <tr> <td><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Infobox_play" title="Template:Infobox play">Infobox play</a>}}</code></td> <td>4,100</td> <td>1,200 </td></tr> <tr> <td><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Infobox_artist_discography" title="Template:Infobox artist discography">Infobox artist discography</a>}}</code></td> <td>5,700</td> <td>700 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bot-generated" data-mw-thread-id="h-Bot-generated-Auto-generated_and_bot-generated_descriptions"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Bot-generated-Auto-generated_and_bot-generated_descriptions"></span>Bot-generated<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Bot-generated-Auto-generated_and_bot-generated_descriptions"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Short_descriptions&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Bot-generated"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/User:DannyS712_bot" title="User:DannyS712 bot">User:DannyS712 bot</a> Task 4 – Short descriptions for articles about bilateral relations (approx. 3,000 articles)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:DannyS712_bot" title="User:DannyS712 bot">User:DannyS712 bot</a> Task 20 – Short descriptions for outlines (approx. 400 articles)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:ShortDescBot" title="User:ShortDescBot">User:ShortDescBot</a> – about 300,000 articles</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Templates_and_modules" data-mw-thread-id="h-Templates_and_modules-Auto-generated_and_bot-generated_descriptions"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Templates_and_modules-Auto-generated_and_bot-generated_descriptions"></span>Templates and modules<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Templates_and_modules-Auto-generated_and_bot-generated_descriptions"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Short_descriptions&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Templates and modules"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Templates and modules that are useful for this/created for helping with short descriptions: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Module:Plain_text" title="Module:Plain text">Module:Plain text</a>, for removing extraneous markup</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Module:Type_in_location" title="Module:Type in location">Module:Type in location</a>, for formatting input from <code class="tpl-para" style="word-break:break-word;">|location=</code> and getting shorter location</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Module:Is_infobox_in_lead" title="Module:Is infobox in lead">Module:Is infobox in lead</a>, for checking if the infobox is the lead infobox and the only lead infobox</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:Auto_short_description" title="Template:Auto short description">Template:Auto short description</a>, for tagging templates that have code that automatically generates a short description.</li> <li>See also <a href="/wiki/Category:Modules_that_create_a_short_description" title="Category:Modules that create a short description">Category:Modules that create a short description</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Can_I_use_the_Wikidata_text_if_it_is_good?" data-mw-thread-id="h-Can_I_use_the_Wikidata_text_if_it_is_good?"><span id="Can_I_use_the_Wikidata_text_if_it_is_good.3F"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Can_I_use_the_Wikidata_text_if_it_is_good?"></span>Can I use the Wikidata text if it is good?<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Can_I_use_the_Wikidata_text_if_it_is_good?"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Short_descriptions&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Can I use the Wikidata text if it is good?"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Yes, but only if it complies with the guidance at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SDFORMAT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SDFORMAT">WP:SDFORMAT</a>, including the length recommendation (the vast majority of short descriptions are shorter than 40 characters). If it is good, you can copy it to Wikipedia in one click using the helper gadget, or choose to edit the text beforehand. There is no legal issue with copying, as all Wikidata texts are in the public domain. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Can_I_use_a_bot_to_copy_over_text_from_Wikidata?" data-mw-thread-id="h-Can_I_use_a_bot_to_copy_over_text_from_Wikidata?"><span id="Can_I_use_a_bot_to_copy_over_text_from_Wikidata.3F"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Can_I_use_a_bot_to_copy_over_text_from_Wikidata?"></span>Can I use a bot to copy over text from Wikidata?<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Can_I_use_a_bot_to_copy_over_text_from_Wikidata?"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Short_descriptions&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Can I use a bot to copy over text from Wikidata?"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>No. The idea of bulk-importation from Wikidata has been rejected <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Archive_170#Synchronising_short_descriptions_and_Wikidata_descriptions" title="Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 170">in an RFC</a>. Wikidata texts are often not suitable as they are not subject to Wikipedia's policies, and have a different purpose. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Which_articles_can_I_work_on?" data-mw-thread-id="h-Which_articles_can_I_work_on?"><span id="Which_articles_can_I_work_on.3F"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Which_articles_can_I_work_on?"></span>Which articles can I work on?<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Which_articles_can_I_work_on?"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Short_descriptions&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Which articles can I work on?"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Start with topics where you are sufficiently familiar to be able to write a good short description. If you run out, do anything that you are confident you can handle. If in doubt, leave it out. When dealing with biographies, follow the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:BLP" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:BLP">WP:BLP</a> policy scrupulously. Don't add a date of birth unless it is properly sourced in the article. </p> <ul><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=incategory%3A%22Living+people%22+-hastemplate%3A%22Short+description%22&title=Special%3ASearch&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns0=1&searchToken=c7ynjf5dw2h8q68ddnud3xsfz">Living people</a> are usually easy to create short descriptions for. Per <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SDEXAMPLES" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SDEXAMPLES">WP:SDEXAMPLES</a>, the format "[country adjective] [what the person is known for]" (Examples: "American singer/songwriter", "Cuban ice skater") is usually appropriate.</li> <li>Similarly, <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=incategory%3A%221796+births%22+-hastemplate%3A%22Short+description%22&title=Special%3ASearch&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns0=1&searchToken=4my0gyrib3zdzgcgdwm7dpvn">a "<i>year</i> births" category search</a> will result in all of the articles for people born in that year without short descriptions. Change the year in the search string if you get no results. See <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SDDATES" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SDDATES">WP:SDDATES</a> for guidance on inclusion of year ranges, and learn how to make the – dash character with your keyboard so that you create a properly formatted year range.</li> <li>Work through <a href="/wiki/User:Uhai/Pages_without_short_descriptions_by_view_count" title="User:Uhai/Pages without short descriptions by view count">User:Uhai/Pages without short descriptions by view count</a>, updated monthly. Or just do a few when you feel like it.</li> <li>Work through your watchlist (or part of it), or a WikiProject's articles, or a category. You can add the <a href="/wiki/User:SD0001/shortdescs-in-category" title="User:SD0001/shortdescs-in-category">User:SD0001/shortdescs-in-category</a> user script to help working on categories</li> <li>If you like <a href="/wiki/Portal:Contents/Outlines" class="mw-redirect" title="Portal:Contents/Outlines">Outlines</a>, work through one. They may be a good source of short descriptions if well annotated, and if not you can annotate with the short descriptions as you create them.</li> <li>If you are a bot operator, there are bot tasks to be done.</li> <li>To get a long list of unorganized articles, <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=-incategory%3A%22Articles+with+short+description%22+-incategory%3A%22All+disambiguation+pages%22&title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns0=1&searchToken=a1ooceovogj3c6v8i84enkafe1">search for <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">-incategory:"Articles with short description" -incategory:"All disambiguation pages"</code></a> — this ignores any disambiguation pages, as they are being handled separately. You could add something like <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch/articletopic" class="extiw" title="mw:Help:CirrusSearch/articletopic">articletopic:physics</a> or <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch#bounded" class="extiw" title="mw:Help:CirrusSearch">neartitle:"San Francisco"</a> to limit to topics or places of interest.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="How_do_I_find_articles_with_no_short_description?" data-mw-thread-id="h-How_do_I_find_articles_with_no_short_description?"><span id="How_do_I_find_articles_with_no_short_description.3F"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-How_do_I_find_articles_with_no_short_description?"></span>How do I find articles with no short description?<span data-mw-comment-end="h-How_do_I_find_articles_with_no_short_description?"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Short_descriptions&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: How do I find articles with no short description?"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The search parameter <span class="nowrap"><code>-hastemplate:"Short description"</code></span> identifies articles that do not have the template <code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Short_description" title="Template:Short description">short description</a>}}</code>. </p><p>You can simply use the input box below: </p> <div class="mw-inputbox-centered" style=""><form name="searchbox" class="searchbox mw-inputbox-form" action="/wiki/Special:Search"><div class="cdx-text-input"><input class="mw-inputbox-input mw-searchInput searchboxInput cdx-text-input__input" name="search" value="-hastemplate:"Short description"" placeholder="" size="50" dir="ltr"/></div><br/><input type="submit" name="fulltext" value="Search full text" class="cdx-button"/><input type="hidden" value="Search" name="fulltext"/></form></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="What_should_I_do_about_a_bad_short_description?" data-mw-thread-id="h-What_should_I_do_about_a_bad_short_description?"><span id="What_should_I_do_about_a_bad_short_description.3F"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-What_should_I_do_about_a_bad_short_description?"></span>What should I do about a bad short description?<span data-mw-comment-end="h-What_should_I_do_about_a_bad_short_description?"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Short_descriptions&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: What should I do about a bad short description?"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Fix it: this <i>is</i> Wikipedia.</li> <li>Follow <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:BRD" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:BRD">Bold - Revert - Discuss</a>, or you can start with Discuss in uncertain cases. The short description is just another piece of content.</li> <li>In the case of a content dispute, get talk page consensus.</li> <li>For a BLP violation, remove or preferably replace the description, providing an edit summary to explain. A date of birth should not appear for a living person unless properly sourced in the article.</li></ul> <p><code>{{subst:Uw-longsd}}</code> can be used to warn editors who continually add <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SDSHORT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SDSHORT">very long</a> short descriptions (documentation <a href="/wiki/Template:Uw-longsd" title="Template:Uw-longsd">here</a>). You can also write a personalized message addressing the problem, which may be more effective or appropriate in some cases. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Join_the_project" data-mw-thread-id="h-Join_the_project"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Join_the_project"></span>Join the project<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Join_the_project"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Short_descriptions&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Join the project"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Add your signature to the bottom of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Short_descriptions/Members" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Short descriptions/Members">the list of project members</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Userbox" data-mw-thread-id="h-Userbox"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Userbox"></span>Userbox<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Userbox"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Short_descriptions&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Userbox"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Add <code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:User_Short_descriptions" title="Template:User Short descriptions">User Short descriptions</a>}}</code> to your user page to be included in <a href="/wiki/Category:WikiProject_Short_descriptions_participants" title="Category:WikiProject Short descriptions participants">Category:WikiProject Short descriptions participants</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Userboxes" title="Wikipedia:Userboxes">userbox</a> looks like this: </p> <div class="wikipediauserbox" style="float:left;border:1px solid #bcbcac;margin:1px;width:238px"><table role="presentation" style="border-collapse:collapse;width:238px;margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0;background:#f8f9f8;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><td style="border:0;width:45px;height:45px;background:#f8f9f8;text-align:center;font-size:14pt;font-weight:bold;color:black;padding:0 1px 0 0;line-height:1.25em;vertical-align:middle"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Farm-Fresh_quill.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/Farm-Fresh_quill.png" decoding="async" width="32" height="32" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="32" data-file-height="32"/></a></span></td><td style="border:0;text-align:left;font-size:8pt;padding:0 4px 0 4px;height:45px;line-height:1.25em;color:black;vertical-align:middle">This user is a participant in <b><a class="mw-selflink selflink">WikiProject Short descriptions</a></b>.</td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <p>You can also display a top icon as well, by adding <code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Short_descriptions_topicon" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Short descriptions topicon">Short descriptions topicon</a>}}</code> anywhere in your user page. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Tracking_categories" data-mw-thread-id="h-Tracking_categories"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Tracking_categories"></span>Tracking categories<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Tracking_categories"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Short_descriptions&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Tracking categories"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Counts of different types of pages having short descriptions </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Articles_with_short_description" title="Category:Articles with short description">Category:Articles with short description</a> (5,818,453)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Redirects_with_short_description" title="Category:Redirects with short description">Category:Redirects with short description</a> (14,819)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Pages_with_short_description" title="Category:Pages with short description">Category:Pages with short description</a> (810) — this should be empty; pages should either be in one of the above categories, or not be categorised in this way after <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2022_December_15" title="Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2022 December 15">Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2022 December 15</a></li></ul> <p>Categories for this project </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:WikiProject_Short_descriptions" title="Category:WikiProject Short descriptions">Category:WikiProject Short descriptions</a> (20)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:WikiProject_Short_descriptions_participants" title="Category:WikiProject Short descriptions participants">Category:WikiProject Short descriptions participants</a> (227)</li></ul> <p>Counts of Short description vs. Wikidata </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Short_description_matches_Wikidata" title="Category:Short description matches Wikidata">Category:Short description matches Wikidata</a> (2,084,101)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Short_description_is_different_from_Wikidata" title="Category:Short description is different from Wikidata">Category:Short description is different from Wikidata</a> (4,179,183)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Short_description_with_empty_Wikidata_description" title="Category:Short description with empty Wikidata description">Category:Short description with empty Wikidata description</a> (126,193)</li></ul> <p>Counts of modules/templates that create short descriptions </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Modules_that_create_a_short_description" title="Category:Modules that create a short description">Category:Modules that create a short description</a> (3)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Templates_that_generate_short_descriptions" title="Category:Templates that generate short descriptions">Category:Templates that generate short descriptions</a> (239)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Maintenance_categories" data-mw-thread-id="h-Maintenance_categories"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Maintenance_categories"></span>Maintenance categories<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Maintenance_categories"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Short_descriptions&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Maintenance categories"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Maintenance category to identify problems with the template parameters </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Pages_using_short_description_with_unknown_parameters" title="Category:Pages using short description with unknown parameters">Category:Pages using short description with unknown parameters</a> (0)</li></ul> <p>Maintenance categories to list pages with descriptions over 100 characters </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Articles_with_long_short_description" title="Category:Articles with long short description">Category:Articles with long short description</a> (0)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Drafts_with_long_short_description" title="Category:Drafts with long short description">Category:Drafts with long short description</a> (19)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Files_with_long_short_description" title="Category:Files with long short description">Category:Files with long short description</a> (0)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Help_pages_with_long_short_description" title="Category:Help pages with long short description">Category:Help pages with long short description</a> (0)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Modules_with_long_short_description" title="Category:Modules with long short description">Category:Modules with long short description</a> (0)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Portals_with_long_short_description" title="Category:Portals with long short description">Category:Portals with long short description</a> (0)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Project_pages_with_long_short_description" title="Category:Project pages with long short description">Category:Project pages with long short description</a> (0)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Redirects_with_long_short_description" title="Category:Redirects with long short description">Category:Redirects with long short description</a> (0)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Templates_with_long_short_description" title="Category:Templates with long short description">Category:Templates with long short description</a> (0)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:User_pages_with_long_short_description" title="Category:User pages with long short description">Category:User pages with long short description</a> (14)</li></ul> <p>Issues with Short descriptions </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Pages_with_lower-case_short_description" title="Category:Pages with lower-case short description">Category:Pages with lower-case short description</a> (2)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Database_reports" data-mw-thread-id="h-Database_reports"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Database_reports"></span>Database reports<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Database_reports"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Short_descriptions&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Database reports"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_reports/Short_descriptions_containing_invalid_space_characters" title="Wikipedia:Database reports/Short descriptions containing invalid space characters">Wikipedia:Database reports/Short descriptions containing invalid space characters</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_reports/Short_descriptions_containing_possibly_invalid_characters" title="Wikipedia:Database reports/Short descriptions containing possibly invalid characters">Wikipedia:Database reports/Short descriptions containing possibly invalid characters</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Category_tree" data-mw-thread-id="h-Category_tree"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Category_tree"></span>Category tree<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Category_tree"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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class="CategoryTreeBullet"><a class="CategoryTreeToggle" data-ct-title="Short_description_related_modules" aria-expanded="false"></a> </span> <bdi dir="ltr"><a href="/wiki/Category:Short_description_related_modules" title="Category:Short description related modules">Short description related modules</a></bdi> <span title="Contains 1 subcategory, 4 pages, and 0 files" dir="ltr">(1 C, 4 P)</span></div><div class="CategoryTreeChildren" style="display:none"></div></div><div class="CategoryTreeSection"><div class="CategoryTreeItem"><span class="CategoryTreeEmptyBullet"></span> <bdi dir="ltr"><a href="/wiki/Category:Short_description_with_empty_Wikidata_description" title="Category:Short description with empty Wikidata description">Short description with empty Wikidata description</a></bdi> <span title="Contains 0 subcategories, 126,193 pages, and 0 files" dir="ltr">(126,193 P)</span></div><div class="CategoryTreeChildren" style="display:none"></div></div><div class="CategoryTreeSection"><div class="CategoryTreeItem"><span class="CategoryTreeBullet"><a class="CategoryTreeToggle" data-ct-title="Templates_that_generate_short_descriptions" aria-expanded="false"></a> </span> <bdi dir="ltr"><a href="/wiki/Category:Templates_that_generate_short_descriptions" title="Category:Templates that generate short descriptions">Templates that generate short descriptions</a></bdi> <span title="Contains 1 subcategory, 238 pages, and 0 files" dir="ltr">(1 C, 238 P)</span></div><div class="CategoryTreeChildren" style="display:none"></div></div><div class="CategoryTreeSection"><div class="CategoryTreeItem"><span class="CategoryTreeEmptyBullet"></span> <bdi dir="ltr"><a href="/wiki/Category:WikiProject_Short_descriptions_pages" title="Category:WikiProject Short descriptions pages">WikiProject Short descriptions pages</a></bdi> <span title="Contains 0 subcategories, 73 pages, and 0 files" dir="ltr">(73 P)</span></div><div class="CategoryTreeChildren" style="display:none"></div></div></div></div></div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Monthly_checks" data-mw-thread-id="h-Monthly_checks"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Monthly_checks"></span>Monthly checks<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Monthly_checks"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Short_descriptions&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Monthly checks"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Review <a href="/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_pages_with_long_short_description" title="Category:Wikipedia pages with long short description">Category:Wikipedia pages with long short description</a> (11)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bambots.brucemyers.com/TemplateParam.php?action=missing&wiki=enwiki&template=Short+description&param=1">This TemplateParam report</a> lists articles where the SD template has a missing or blank description.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bambots.brucemyers.com/TemplateParam.php?template=Short+description">The main TemplateParam report</a> can also highlight cases where the template has too many parameters.</li> <li>Also <a href="/wiki/Template:Short_description#Maintenance_categories" title="Template:Short description">Template:Short description#Maintenance categories</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Discussions" data-mw-thread-id="h-Discussions"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Discussions"></span>Discussions<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Discussions"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Short_descriptions&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Discussions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Previous and current discussions on English WP short description and WikiData descriptions </p><p>Note: <a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Short_description" class="mw-redirect" title="Template talk:Short description">Template talk:Short description</a> redirects to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Short_description" title="Wikipedia talk:Short description">Wikipedia talk:Short description</a> </p> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <caption>Discussions related to short descriptions </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">When </th> <th scope="col">Where </th> <th scope="col">What </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><span class="nowrap">2017-03-27</span> </th> <td><span class="nowrap">Administrators' noticeboard</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive950#Hard_to_detect_mobile_vandalism" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive950">Hard to detect mobile vandalism</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2017-03-28 </th> <td>Village pump (technical) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)/Archive_154#Discussion_at_ANI_about_Wikidata_use_in_mobile_view" title="Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 154">Discussion at ANI about Wikidata use in mobile view</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2017-03-30 </th> <td>Village pump (proposals) </td> <td>RFC <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Archive_138#Rfc:_Remove_description_taken_from_Wikidata_from_mobile_view_of_en-WP" title="Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 138">Remove description taken from Wikidata from mobile view of en-WP</a> — 2017-03-30 Withdrawn </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2017-03-30 </th> <td>Village pump (proposals) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Archive_138#Blockers_to_having_short_description_on_mobile" title="Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 138">Blockers to having short description on mobile</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2017-11-09 </th> <td>Template talk </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Short_description/Archive_1#Some_history_and_explanation_of_this_template_for_those_without_the_time_or_inclination_to_read_the_full_discussion" title="Template talk:Short description/Archive 1">Some history and explanation of this template for those without the time or inclination to read the full discussion</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2017-12-08 </th> <td>Village pump (proposals) </td> <td>RFC <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Archive_145#RfC:_Populating_article_descriptions_magic_word" title="Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 145">Populating article descriptions magic word</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2018-02-07 </th> <td>Wikipedia talk </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Wikidata/2018_State_of_affairs#Short_descriptions" title="Wikipedia talk:Wikidata/2018 State of affairs">2018 State of affairs - Short descriptions</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2018-02-17 </th> <td>Manual of Style talk </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Layout/Archive_12#Short_descriptions" title="Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Layout/Archive 12">(position of) Short descriptions (in articles)</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2018-04-14 </th> <td>Template talk </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Infobox_settlement/Archive_26#short_descriptions" title="Template talk:Infobox settlement/Archive 26">Infobox settlement - short descriptions</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2019-04-13 </th> <td>Manual of Style talk </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Layout/Archive_13#Where_to_put_{{short_description}}" title="Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Layout/Archive 13">Where to put {{short_description}}</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2020-05-15 </th> <td>Village pump (WMF) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(WMF)/Archive_2#Update:_Scheduled_shutdown_of_Wikidata_descriptions_on_EnWiki" title="Wikipedia:Village pump (WMF)/Archive 2">Update: Scheduled shutdown of Wikidata descriptions on EnWiki</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2020-08-03 </th> <td>WikiData </td> <td>Pi bot 14 — <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Pi_bot_14" class="extiw" title="wikidata:Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/Pi bot 14">Import short descriptions from the English Wikipedia</a> (bot task to copy English WP short descriptions to WikiData) <span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Green tick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/13px-Green_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/20px-Green_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/26px-Green_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600"/></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span> 2020-10-20 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2020-08-03 </th> <td>Wikipedia talk </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Short_description#Copying_short_descriptions_to_Wikidata" title="Wikipedia talk:Short description">Copying short descriptions to Wikidata</a> — Reference to Pi bot 14 / Pi bot 5 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2020-08-03 </th> <td>Wikipedia Bot Requests </td> <td>Pi bot 5 — <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/Pi_bot_5" title="Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Pi bot 5">Synchronise short descriptions with Wikidata</a> (bot task to copy all WikiData descriptions to English WP) — 2020-09-15 <b>Denied</b> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2020-08-06 </th> <td>Village pump (proposals) </td> <td>RFC <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Archive_170#Synchronising_short_descriptions_and_Wikidata_descriptions" title="Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 170">Synchronising short descriptions and Wikidata descriptions</a> — 2020-09-05 Closed <b>No</b> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2020-08-07 </th> <td>WikiProject talk </td> <td>+ <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Short_descriptions#RfC_on_bot-importing_short_descriptions_to_and_from_Wikidata,_various_options_suggested" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Short descriptions">RfC on bot-importing short descriptions to and from Wikidata</a> — Reference to the above </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2020-08-07 </th> <td>WikiProject talk </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Short_descriptions#Bot_proposal_to_create_short_descriptions_from_scratch,_for_articles_requiring_one" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Short descriptions">Bot proposal to create short descriptions from scratch</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2020-08-07 </th> <td>Wikipedia talk </td> <td>+ <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Short_description#Report-assisted_importing_of_short_descriptions" title="Wikipedia talk:Short description">Report-assisted importing of short descriptions</a> — Reference to the above </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2021-07-20 </th> <td>Redirects for discussion </td> <td>Proposal to delete the 7 <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2021_July_20#Aliases_for_Short_description_template" title="Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 July 20">Aliases for Short description template</a> — 2021-07-29 closed as <b>Clear consensus to delete the first 5</b> — 4 deleted </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><span class="anchor" id="Phabricator_tickets"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Phabricator_tickets" data-mw-thread-id="h-Phabricator_tickets"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Phabricator_tickets"></span>Phabricator tickets<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Phabricator_tickets"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Short_descriptions&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Phabricator tickets"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <caption>Some of the Phabricator tickets related to short descriptions </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Opened </th> <th scope="col">Ticket </th> <th scope="col">Title </th> <th scope="col">Closed </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><span class="nowrap">2018-01-03</span> </th> <td><a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184000" class="extiw" title="phab:T184000">T184000</a> </td> <td>Magic word on English WP to override display of Wikidata short description </td> <td><span class="nowrap">2018-04-09</span> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2018-05-04 </th> <td><a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193857" class="extiw" title="phab:T193857">T193857</a> </td> <td>Support 'noreplace' keyword in {{SHORTDESC}} </td> <td>2018-07-02 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2020-03-25 </th> <td><a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248457" class="extiw" title="phab:T248457">T248457</a> </td> <td>Fully terminate use of Wikidata item descriptions as short article descriptions for English Wikipedia articles </td> <td>2023-01-29 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2020-06-30 </th> <td><a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T256817" class="extiw" title="phab:T256817">T256817</a> </td> <td>[EPIC] Replace Wikidata descriptions on enwiki with local descriptions — Parent to T257486, T257488 and others </td> <td>2022-01-28 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2020-07-08 </th> <td><a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T257486" class="extiw" title="phab:T257486">T257486</a> </td> <td>Switch search to use local descriptions on enwiki </td> <td>2021-04-26 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2020-07-08 </th> <td><a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T257488" class="extiw" title="phab:T257488">T257488</a> </td> <td>Adding/editing descriptions should modify the local article, not Wikidata </td> <td>2021-04-26 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2020-07-13 </th> <td><a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T257867" class="extiw" title="phab:T257867">T257867</a> </td> <td>Adding/editing descriptions should modify the local article, not Wikidata — iOS task </td> <td>2021-04-26 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2020-08-04 </th> <td><a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T259617" class="extiw" title="phab:T259617">T259617</a> </td> <td>Article description editing API — Overview of managing local descriptions </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2020-08-04 </th> <td><a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T259622" class="extiw" title="phab:T259622">T259622</a> </td> <td>System Administrator disables Wikidata fallback for article descriptions — <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.13" class="extiw" title="mw:MediaWiki 1.36/wmf.13">Live on <b>2020-10-13</b></a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2020-08-25 </th> <td><a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T261237" class="extiw" title="phab:T261237">T261237</a> </td> <td>Update terminology for "Article Descriptions" to match across feature — iOS app </td> <td>2021-04-26 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2020-09-03 </th> <td><a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T261977" class="extiw" title="phab:T261977">T261977</a> </td> <td>Add tool tip for editing Wikidata descriptions in the iOS app </td> <td>2021-04-26 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2020-09-21 </th> <td><a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263493" class="extiw" title="phab:T263493">T263493</a> </td> <td>Reader gets appropriate article short description in search results — REST API — <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.13" class="extiw" title="mw:MediaWiki 1.36/wmf.13">Live on <b>2020-10-13</b></a><br/>(First direct display of Short descriptions on desktop skins) </td> <td>2020-10-19 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2021-04-08 </th> <td><a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279702" class="extiw" title="phab:T279702">T279702</a> </td> <td>Suggestededit-add_1.0 is suggesting bad short descriptions on en.WP; short description feature should be disabled until fixed </td> <td>2022-04-21 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2021-08-18 </th> <td><a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T289214" class="extiw" title="phab:T289214">T289214</a> </td> <td>Switch to <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OOUI" class="extiw" title="mw:OOUI">OOUI</a> TitleInputWidget for the link-inserter in WikiEditor — <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.38/wmf.5#WikiEditor" class="extiw" title="mw:MediaWiki 1.38/wmf.5">Live on 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