nichtich added a comment. At least the documentation <https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=wbsearchentities> lacks a clear description of this complex language negotiation mechanism (`uselang` is not mentioned. Meaning of 'strictlanguage' unclear, examples only refer to English).
The broken part in design, however, is the lack of language tags in response format. Either language should correspond to `uselang` or it should be marked explicitly. How should a client know about DE falls back to EN or know about the language inferred from a use cookie? As I understand now, a response can include strings in at least three different languages at the same time, so it would be better to tag every strings with its language. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109584 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: nichtich Cc: nichtich, Lydia_Pintscher, Jonas, Addshore, thiemowmde, Aklapper, Wikidata-bugs, aude _______________________________________________ Wikidata-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-bugs
