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Bug 35074 - Make API error messages translatable
Make API error messages translatable
Status: NEW
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Internationalization (Other open bugs)
1.19
All All
: Normal enhancement with 1 vote (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php...
: i18n
: 45753 (view as bug list)
Depends on: 45843
Blocks:
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Reported: 2012-03-09 01:17 UTC by Helder
Modified: 2014-08-02 02:02 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Description Helder 2012-03-09 01:17:53 UTC 
Currently, if we do a call such as
https://pt.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=LOREM+IPSUM&format=jsonfm
there will be an error message
>"info": "Unrecognized value for parameter 'action': LOREM IPSUM"

This kind of messages from API (errors and warnings) should be translatable into the user language.
Comment 1 Niklas Laxström 2012-03-09 06:48:51 UTC 
We should not complicate API itself with i18n too much, but we can certainly make it easier for applications using API by providing localised error message through an API module or RL module for example.
Comment 2 Sam Reed (reedy) 2012-03-09 16:32:25 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> We should not complicate API itself with i18n too much, but we can certainly
> make it easier for applications using API by providing localised error message
> through an API module or RL module for example.

I'd agree with something along those lines.

Just because someone is using it on a non english wiki (especially in WMFs case), doesn't mean they want their error messages localised.

Having some map (though, we probably need to ensure unique error codes), to be able to request a localised version would be sane
Comment 3 Brad Jorsch 2013-03-05 21:25:21 UTC 
*** Bug 45753 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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