When I using wikidata in non-english (e.g. German) and enter a statement on Wikidta, with property value (wikibase-item), the value is displayed in english once it is saved instead of in German.
When I reload the item, then it is in German.
Version: unspecified
Severity: major
Whiteboard: u=dev c=frontend p=0
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63059
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | None | T74393 property values formatted in english when entering them in non-english | |||
| Resolved | None | T65059 wbparsevalue API calls are missing the lang option | |||
| Resolved | None | T74633 Set "language"-parameter when doing API calls from the UI |
If the frontend should pass the language to wbformatvalue and wbparsevalue, it would have to either pass the language to the valueview which passes it to the experts, or it would have to pass it in to getApiBasedValue{Formatter,Parser}Constructor. The latter is much easier.
This could also be fixed in the API modules: they should default to the user language, not the content language.
Really, we should do both. The API should use the "correct" default, and the UI code should always pass a language when parsing or formatting, for completeness and consistency.