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Use localized badges in presentation of apps on Wikipedia portal
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Now the English version of badges is used for all languages, this is wrong for an international site. I think it would be nice, if we could use localized badges for each language where one exists.

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See also

T225648
https://developer.apple.com/app-store/marketing/guidelines/#section-badges
https://play.google.com/intl/en_us/badges/

Event Timeline

Noting both Apple and Google only support a fraction of the languages that we have projects for (311? 309 wikipedias, 2 other languages that don't have wikipedias but have sister projects). So fallbacks will be needed

Apple (38 languages - 12.2% of our languages)

Azərbaycan dili, Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Melayu, Čeština, Dansk, Deutsch, Eesti Keel, English, Español, Français, Italiano, Latviski, Lietuviškai, Magyar, Malti, Nederlands, Norsk, Polski, Português, Português Brasil, Pусский, Română, Slovenčina, Slovenščina, Suomi, Svenska, Tagalog, Tiếng Việt, Türkçe, Ελληνικά, български, עברית, العربية , ภาษาไทย, 한국어, 日本語, 简体中文, 繁體中文

Google (77 languages - 24.75% of our languages)

Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Chinese (HK), Chinese (CN), Chinese (TW), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Farsi, Filipino, Finnish, French, French (CA), Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean, Kyrgyz, Lao, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (BR), Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Spanish (LATAM), Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Zulu

I note they are very crude figures. They have things like Canadian French and Spanish (LATAM) that we don't etc.