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Email notifications do not display multilingual content (Wikidata entities) in user language
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Description

Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):

  • Have email notifications for mentions enabled
  • Make your user language English
  • Have user who's user language is Russian mention you in an edit that contains a user-language dependent text such as https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:Property

What happens?:

You receive an email whose language-dependent text is in the language of the user who sent the notification.

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In this case I recieved an email that had Russian when my user language is English.

Link to comment: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property_talk:P10726#c-Lockal-20230112085200-Push-f-20221213090300

What should have happened instead?:

It should have showed the English labels of the Wikidata entities.

Software version (skip for WMF-hosted wikis like Wikipedia):

Other information (browser name/version, screenshots, etc.):

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Aklapper renamed this task from Email notifications do not display multilingual content in user language to Email notifications do not display multilingual content (Wikidata entities) in user language.Jan 12 2023, 3:29 PM
kostajh subscribed.

Would be nice to fix, but doesn't seem like something that Growth team can work on in the short to medium term.