Localize API documentation shown at [[Special:ApiSandbox]]
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	He7d3r
	Jul 13 2014, 4:12 PM

Description

If I got to e.g.
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Especial:ApiSandbox?uselang=pt#action=query&meta=siteinfo&format=json

I see this:

Documentação
siteinfo

Return general information about the site. (leia mais)

The documentation "Return general information about the site." should be localizable.

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Severity: normal
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35074
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67732

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Reference: bz67950

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Mentioned In: T37074: Make API error messages translatable

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 3:27 AM

• bzimport added projects: MediaWiki-extensions-ApiSandbox, I18n.

• bzimport set Reference to bz67950.

• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

He7d3r created this task.Jul 13 2014, 4:12 PM

ApiSandbox just displays what it gets from the API itself. API is not localized (cf bug 67732) and I don't think it's possible in principle because most translators on TWN are non-technical.

Tgr mentioned this in T37074: Make API error messages translatable.Oct 24 2016, 7:46 PM

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