UserInfo: Groups translation ignores the `uselang` parameter
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	• Niharika
	Sep 16 2025, 8:57 AM

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

Set your language on he.wikipedia.org to English (or any other language than Hebrew) in Special:Preferences
Go to https://he.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ויקיפדיה:מזנון&action=history&uselang=he
Open any user info card

What happens?:

"Groups" appear in the language you specified in step 1

What should have happened instead?:
Groups should have been listed in Hebrew.

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

Also replicable on zhwiki:

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Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Author	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	UIC: Use current language for user groups	Mszwarc	mediawiki/extensions/CheckUser	master	+3 -1

Customize query in gerrit

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• Niharika created this task.Sep 16 2025, 8:57 AM

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I cannot reproduce this myself using the steps provided:

Investigating this a bit more, it seems that the groups line ignores the uselang parameter. For example, I opened https://he.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%93%D7%99%D7%94:%D7%9E%D7%96%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%9F&action=history&uselang=en and saw:

Therefore, this isn't that the groups messages are not translated but that the translation used is the one in Special:Preferences even if it's overridden using uselang.

Dreamy_Jazz renamed this task from UserInfo: Groups are displayed in English when they should be translated to UserInfo: Groups translation ignores the `uselang` parameter.Sep 16 2025, 9:19 AM

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