Yep, just add the "uselang" parameter: https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbsearchentities&language=fr&… On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 9:37 AM Yaron Koren <yaron57(a)gmail.com> wrote: -- Dmitry Brant Senior Software Engineer (Android) Wikimedia Foundation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_mobile_engineering _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata

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(a)wikiworks.com> wrote: -- Dmitry Brant Senior Software Engineer (Android) Wikimedia Foundation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_mobile_engineering _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata

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 &lt;yaron(a)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 &lt;dbrant(a)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 &lt;yaron(a)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 &lt;dbrant(a)wikimedia.org <mailto:dbrant@wikimedia.org>> wrote: Yep, just add the "uselang" parameter: https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbsearchentities&language=fr&… On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 9:37 AM Yaron Koren &lt;yaron57(a)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&… 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 Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org> 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 Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata -- WikiWorks · MediaWiki Consulting · http://wikiworks.com _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org> 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 Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata -- WikiWorks · MediaWiki Consulting · http://wikiworks.com _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata

Perhaps an example making use of uselang would be useful? On Fri, 16 Oct 2020, 16:45 Antonin Delpeuch (lists), < lists(a)antonin.delpeuch.eu&gt; wrote: _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata