https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50431

--- Comment #10 from Liangent <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #9)
> (In reply to comment #7)
> > (In reply to comment #5)
> > > Fine technically - I think users would be upset and confused.
> > 
> > So you'll need to prepare for some interface design to tell users that "Some
> > text written in English" and "Some other text written in Spanish" lines are
> > not in pt.
> 
> Why couldn't the TemplateData just be written in the users's language?

You can't expect all templatedata blocks to have labels in all hundreds of
languages which MediaWiki supports.

> > And the format of JSON needs to be modified to include this info.
> 
> I don't think that's a good outcome. If there isn't a description in your
> language (in this case, pt), we shouldn't magically tell you that we've given
> you a message in a different language (we don't do this for the MW messages
> framework, for instance).

We do so in Wikibase, if the user indicates that they can read another language
-- in our implementation it checks {{#babel: }} currently but some global
preferences here will be nice of course.

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