Maniphest T209380

Caption language selector shows interface language version of the language name on selection, but otherwise the native one
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Steps to reproduce:

Go to the File page for an image, e.g. https://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/File:Martti_Jukola_reporting_from_a_sports_event,_1930s..jpg
Click to add a new caption, and chose the first ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ option as language
Note that when the option is chosen, Inukituk is displayed instead of ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ
Enter some caption text, click publish
Note that now ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ/inuktitut is displayed as the language for the caption
Reload the page
Now 'Inikituk' is displayed as the language

It's even more complicated if you stick ?uselang=fr onto the end of the File page url. Sometimes a language will get displayed in French, sometimes in English, sometimes the autonym.

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	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Use autonym for the display value on language change	mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseMediaInfo	master	+2 -1

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Mentioned In: rEWBId856a882583c: Use autonym for the display value on language change
T208902: Sometimes some users get content rendered at the wrong font weight for some language labels on SDC captions box

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Cparle created this task.Nov 13 2018, 3:46 PM

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Confirmed. I've seen this bug earlier, but hadn't had time to record it happening. It happens on languages like Japanese too, where you can alternatively see the Japanese name of the language "日本語" and "Japanese" in English.

• Ramsey-WMF moved this task from Untriaged to Triaged on the Multimedia board.Nov 13 2018, 4:55 PM

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Cparle mentioned this in T208902: Sometimes some users get content rendered at the wrong font weight for some language labels on SDC captions box.Nov 15 2018, 5:00 PM

Jdforrester-WMF renamed this task from Language name display inconsistencies in multi-lingual file captions to Caption language selector shows interface language version of the language name on selection, but otherwise the native one.Dec 18 2018, 12:23 PM

Change 480476 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jforrester; owner: Jforrester):
[mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseMediaInfo@master] Use autonym for the display value on language change

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/480476

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Dec 18 2018, 1:04 PM

Jdforrester-WMF mentioned this in rEWBId856a882583c: Use autonym for the display value on language change.Dec 18 2018, 1:05 PM

OK, I've made a patch to make this use the autonym when setting the display value of the button on selection.

Note that there are some fun edge cases in the MediaWiki-verse, where the autonym isn't always used faithfully – you've found that Inuktitut is one of these, where cldr/ULS set the autonym (correctly) to "ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ" but MediaWiki calls it "ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ/inuktitut" (for some reason). Resolving that inconsistency that would be the language team's field, and I'm not sure it's worth it.

Change 480476 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseMediaInfo@master] Use autonym for the display value on language change

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/480476

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.33-notes (1.33.0-wmf.12; 2019-01-08).Dec 21 2018, 11:00 AM

Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from Doing to Verify on Production on the Structured Data Engineering board.Dec 22 2018, 12:02 PM

Jdforrester-WMF removed a project: Patch-For-Review.

Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from To Do to Ready for Production Testing on the Multimedia-Team-Working-Board board.Jan 11 2019, 10:21 PM

Will be deployed next week (Test Commons on 2019-01-15, Real Commons on 2019-01-16).

Confirmed working on production.

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Caption language selector shows interface language version of the language name on selection, but otherwise the native one
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