Editing Chabadpedia:Short description (section)

{{Short description|Use of short descriptions on English Chabadpedia}}
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{{Nutshell
|The short description of a Chabadpedia article is a brief phrase, with a [[#Formatting|specific format]], designed to work together with the title to indicate the article's scope.
|Every article [[#"none" as a short description|whose title is not already fully self-explanatory]] should have a short description.
|The short description appears with the title in lists such as search results, helping users identify the desired article.}}
[[File:Abe lincoln on app.jpg|thumb|alt= Screenshot showing a Chabadpedia page in the mobile app, with the short description appearing immediately under the main title|In the mobile app, descriptions appear below the article title.]]

The '''short description''' of a Chabadpedia page is a brief phrase intended to '''complement and clarify the page title''', particularly in contexts where this is seen in isolation from the page itself. Taken together, the title and short description concisely explain the scope of the page—for example, to help a user identify the desired article in a list of search results.

Short descriptions appear in the results of Chabadpedia mobile and some desktop searches, <ref group=note>This includes searches in the [[Chabadpedia:Vector 2022|Vector 2022]] skin, the default desktop view as of February 2025.</ref> and are also displayed immediately below the title on the article page itself by some mobile [[List of Chabadpedia mobile applications|Chabadpedia apps]].

The default desktop view of an article does not show the short description, but logged-in users can change this by enabling the [[Chabadpedia:Shortdesc helper|Shortdesc helper]] in the [[Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets|Gadgets]] section of their [[Special:Preferences|Preferences]]. Short descriptions are then displayed and directly editable.
Description	What you type	What you get
Italic	''Italic text''	Italic text
Bold	'''Bold text'''	Bold text
Bold & italic	'''''Bold & italic text'''''	*Bold & italic text*