Special:Nearby shows English on non-English language wikis
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	Lejonel
	Jul 1 2023, 6:41 AM

Description

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

Go to Special:Nearby on a non-English language wikipedia, such as

What happens?:
Labels and descriptions for places are displayed in English. Even when French or German labels and descriptions has been entered in Wikidata.

What should have happened instead?:

Labels and descriptions should be displayed in wiki language. This is what happened until recently.

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T340902#9020604

QA Results - Prod

AC	Status	Details
1	✅	T340902#9020604

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	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Fix display language of nearby pages	mediawiki/extensions/NearbyPages	master	+2 -5

Customize query in gerrit

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Lejonel created this task.Jul 1 2023, 6:41 AM

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Anoop renamed this task from Special:Nearby shows English on non-English langage wikis to Special:Nearby shows English on non-English language wikis.Jul 1 2023, 6:56 AM

I see that my web browser (Firefox) gets a json file from an url with "&uselang=en" to get these descriptions and labels:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&origin=*&formatversion=2&prop=coordinates%7Cpageprops%7Cpageimages%7Cdescription%7Cinfo%7Cpageterms&inprop=url&colimit=max&generator=geosearch&ggsradius=10000&ggsnamespace=0&ggslimit=50&redirects=no&uselang=en&ppprop=displaytitle&piprop=thumbnail&pithumbsize=150&pilimit=50&codistancefrompage=Mont%20Blanc&ggspage=Mont%20Blanc

I notice that some changes wwre made to NearbyPages in the current software updates to Wikipedia sites: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/wmf.15#NearbyPages
"Drop use of mw.config and use packageFiles instead" by @Jdlrobson looks like something that could cause unexpected changes to language configuration.

Reedy added a project: Regression.Jul 1 2023, 8:55 AM

Change 934465 had a related patch set uploaded (by Func; author: Func):

[mediawiki/extensions/NearbyPages@master] Fix display language of nearby pages

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/934465

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Jul 3 2023, 2:00 PM

The Wikidata Nearby show no language at all, will this be fixed also?

Change 934465 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/NearbyPages@master] Fix display language of nearby pages

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/934465