I tried to find out where the "depicts" text is coming from here, but it's proving to be more tricky than expected. It looks like the text label of the relevant Wikibase property is being used directly, rather than some kind of "Depicts Panel Heading" message the way that the Captions panel is set up:

I assume this is getting set in PHP, and I attempted modifying a few function calls in src/View/MediaInfoEntityStatementsView.php to see if I could change the text on this section of the page, but nothing seemed to happen no matter what I did. This is about the limit of my PHP debugging skills unfortunately. Happy to try to address this ticket if someone can point me to where I should go. I assume that adding a more human-friendly label will require updating the i18n message files as well as the registry in extension.json

I think we're gonna have to ping @Cparle and @matthiasmullie on this one

@egardner you're right, it's the label of the Wikibase 'depicts' property that's being used directly here

Change 492661 had a related patch set uploaded (by Matthias Mullie; owner: Matthias Mullie):
[mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseMediaInfo@master] Add descriptive text for depicts

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/492661

depicts (the first h4.wbmi-entity-label) is indeed the property's name in wikibase (whereas 'Captions' in indeed an i18n message)

MediaInfoEntityStatementsView.php is indeed the correct place - you probably weren't seeing anything because pretty much all of the current content generated in the file gets replaced immediately by the JS widgets (the PHP rendering is only really meant for people/bots without JavaScript)

I just submitted a patch myself, because I just now realized that these changes to titles (in here, and even more in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseMediaInfo/+/492004) also impacted the depicts form's reuse in UploadWizard as well, which already had a functional patch.

Note: copy to be updated to "Items portrayed in this file"

@matthiasmullie - Okay, changes per Nirzar:

Change wording of title, make 'depicts' italicized to de-emphasize it, and update the help text.

Items portrayed in this file
depicts
Search to add items (house cat, mountain, Mona Lisa, etc.)

Change 492661 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseMediaInfo@master] Add descriptive text for depicts

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/492661

Moving this for now, should check again when tabs are implemented. Pinging @PDrouin-WMF as a reminder for her verification as well :)

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ok on test-commons