Module talk:SDcat

Testing

Check whether local short description matches that on Wikidata

Article	Wikidata description	Short description	Category
Douglas Adams (Q42)	English author and humourist (1952–2001)	English author and humorist (1952–2001)	Category:Short description is different from Wikidata
Christian art (Q645717)	art genre	Art genre	Category:Short description matches Wikidata
Resultado do tratamento das fístulas enterovesicais para doença de Crohn (Q58861153)			Category:Short description with empty Wikidata description

Wikidata is unavailable

@IceWelder: What is the point of this edit? Why would this module be used on a wiki where Wikidata is unavailable, and why would it be a good idea to populate the "different" tracking category with every single use if that were the case? * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 16:37, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

Pppery, there is no guarantee that Wikidata is always available, and when it is not, this template produces an error displayed in red and bold on every single article using shortdescs. I use a local MediaWiki instance for preparing some of the articles I write and export/import the pages I intend to rewrite, which is how I noticed the issue. There are no trade-offs to this change. I assumed that the "different" category was the default, based on how the template was previously set up. If this is incorrect, I would be fine with changing it to another (I'm yet to test whether it works with none at all). IceWelder [✉] 16:44, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

You shouldn't mass-import templates from other wikis without making sure they make sense on the wiki they end up on. Neither {{short description}} nor Module:SDcat make any sense on any wiki that does not support Wikidata, therefore code to support such wikis is code bloat and does not belong. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 16:51, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

In my case specifically, they are not supposed to "make sense", just work for the purpose of displaying the article approximately like how it would appear here, which it does just fine. Adding this failsafe eases the process of quickly setting up such an instance. It also avoids errors here when Wikidata is offline for whatever reason. I checked on the template again locally and returning an empty string works just fine in this case. Implementing it that way would also avoid mass category-stuffing in the case of a Wikidata outage. IceWelder [✉] 17:02, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

I reverted the change for now but documented the new approach at Module:SDcat/sandbox. IceWelder [✉] 17:14, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata was once offline, and the result was that viewing every single non-talk page produced an error, rendering any tracking category pollution irrelevant. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 17:23, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

If there's no connection to Wikidata, then the template should do nothing because it cannot determine the status of the short description in those circumstances. I've just made an edit to implement that. --RexxS (talk) 17:24, 16 August 2020 (UTC)