Dmitry, Looking at mailing list history and API Project talk pages... this has been asked tens of times in the past year or so. ;-) (just an observation) So "uselang" probably does deserve at least a small mention on the wbsearchentities help page and then in that mention, just provide the link to the main doc page.
Thad https://www.linkedin.com/in/thadguidry/ On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 9:36 AM Yaron Koren <[email protected]> wrote: > Okay, now I get it - thanks again. > > On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 10:21 AM Dmitry Brant <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> The "uselang" parameter applies to the base (main) module, and >> automatically gets used by other modules that are part of the API call: >> https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=main >> >> >> >> On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 10:01 AM Yaron Koren <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Dmitry, >>> >>> Great, thank you! >>> >>> It looks like "uselang" still needs to be added to the documentation for >>> this API action: >>> >>> https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=wbsearchentities >>> >>> On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 9:46 AM Dmitry Brant <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Yep, just add the "uselang" parameter: >>>> >>>> >>>> https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbsearchentities&language=fr&type=item&search=m&uselang=fr >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 9:37 AM Yaron Koren <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> When you call the "wbsearchentities" API, the main label and >>>>> description returned for each item are always hardcoded in English. (Which >>>>> is strange.) Thankfully, it also returns the label for each item in the >>>>> specified language - here is an example: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbsearchentities&language=fr&type=item&search=m >>>>> >>>>> However, it doesn't seem like there's any way to get the *description* >>>>> of each item in the specified language. Is there? >>>>> >>>>> -Yaron >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> WikiWorks · MediaWiki Consulting · http://wikiworks.com >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Wikidata mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Dmitry Brant >>>> Senior Software Engineer (Android) >>>> Wikimedia Foundation >>>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_mobile_engineering >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wikidata mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> WikiWorks · MediaWiki Consulting · http://wikiworks.com >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikidata mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >>> >> >> >> -- >> Dmitry Brant >> Senior Software Engineer (Android) >> Wikimedia Foundation >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_mobile_engineering >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >> > > > -- > WikiWorks · MediaWiki Consulting · http://wikiworks.com > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >
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