Perhaps an example making use of uselang would be useful?

On Fri, 16 Oct 2020, 16:45 Antonin Delpeuch (lists), <lists@antonin.delpeuch.eu> 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 <yaron@wikiworks.com
> <mailto:yaron@wikiworks.com>> wrote:
>
>     Okay, now I get it - thanks again.
>
>     On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 10:21 AM Dmitry Brant <dbrant@wikimedia.org
>     <mailto:dbrant@wikimedia.org>> 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
>         <yaron@wikiworks.com <mailto:yaron@wikiworks.com>> 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
>             <dbrant@wikimedia.org <mailto:dbrant@wikimedia.org>> 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
>                 <yaron57@gmail.com <mailto:yaron57@gmail.com>> 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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