Perhaps an example making use of uselang would be useful?

On Fri, 16 Oct 2020, 16:45 Antonin Delpeuch (lists), <
[email protected]> wrote:

> I agree - it would be great if help pages like
> https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=wbsearchentities
> could also mention parameters such as "uselang", even if those apply to
> all of MediaWiki.
>
> I filed a Phabricator ticket here:
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T265734
>
> Antonin
>
> On 16/10/2020 17:04, Thad Guidry wrote:
> > 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]
> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> >     Okay, now I get it - thanks again.
> >
> >     On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 10:21 AM Dmitry Brant <[email protected]
> >     <mailto:[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] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[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
> >
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