| The_RedBurn added a comment. |
Based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country, apart from two English speaking islands, the United States is the only country to interpret 07/09/2017 as MM/DD/YYYY.
So for languages other than English, DD/MM/YYYY seems to me the norm.
The time zone as defined in https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering can also be used to check if the user is in the United States. If not, DD/MM/YYYY can also be used. No need to use the IP address.
By combining these two approaches, the number of wrongly recognized dates should be minimal.
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