Wikipedia:Community feature requests/Summarize an article in a few words

Summarize an article in a few words

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  • Problem: Wikipedia article tend to be complex and verbose
  • Proposed solution: Get editors to write and maintain a short version of every article
  • Who would benefit: Readers
  • Category: Reading
  • More comments: See here. If you think the introduction is simple for many articles you may be mistaken. It would take a large effort to write and maintain summaries, but the benefits to readership and reuse could be huge.
  • Phabricator tickets:
  • Status: Open
  • Proposer: Redditor098

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