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Short Description API

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Status:	Planning
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Initiative Vision

Vision: A simple REST API for managing short descriptions for articles
Target Group(s): App developers (iOS, Android) Web developers Third-party developers	Needs: Read an article's short description to present in UI Edit an article's short description Delete a short description Most wikis use Wikidata to store descriptions English Wikipedia uses a local page property	Product: Façade interface to abstract away differences between enwp and other wikis REST API with set, get, and delete methods for short descriptions	Aligned Goals: "Software platforms with integrated machine learning, rich media, and structured data components, and associated tooling for internal and external development and reuse of code and content."