We should enable $wgParserEnableUserLanguage on Wikidata (wikidatawiki) so that template authors can use the {{USERLANGUAGE}} magic word. Currently, Wikidata uses the {{int:lang}} hack instead (i.e., enabling $wgParserEnableUserLanguage wouldn’t significantly reduce the efficiency of the parser cache, because it’s already split by user language, just by different means); see Module:MediaWikiLang for the current implementation of this hack (someone has to regularly look at that page and create all the missing subpages whenever new languages are added to MediaWiki).
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Related Changes in Gerrit:
| Subject | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enable $wgParserEnableUserLanguage ({{USERLANGUAGE}}) on Wikidata | operations/mediawiki-config | master | +1 -0 |
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T378060 Enable USERLANGUAGE magic word on wikis using int:lang hack | |||
| Open | None | T377410 Enable $wgParserEnableUserLanguage on all wikis with Translate enabled | |||
| Resolved | LucasWerkmeister | T405830 Enable USERLANGUAGE magic word for Wikidata |
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Change #1191804 had a related patch set uploaded (by Lucas Werkmeister; author: Lucas Werkmeister):
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Enable $wgParserEnableUserLanguage ({{USERLANGUAGE}}) on Wikidata
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Change #1191804 merged by jenkins-bot:
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Enable $wgParserEnableUserLanguage ({{USERLANGUAGE}}) on Wikidata
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Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-09-29T20:09:37Z] <sgimeno@deploy2002> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1191804|Enable $wgParserEnableUserLanguage ({{USERLANGUAGE}}) on Wikidata (T405830)]]
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Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-09-29T20:16:29Z] <sgimeno@deploy2002> lucaswerkmeister, sgimeno: Backport for [[gerrit:1191804|Enable $wgParserEnableUserLanguage ({{USERLANGUAGE}}) on Wikidata (T405830)]] synced to the testservers (see https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug). Changes can now be verified there.
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Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-09-29T20:23:00Z] <sgimeno@deploy2002> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1191804|Enable $wgParserEnableUserLanguage ({{USERLANGUAGE}}) on Wikidata (T405830)]] (duration: 13m 23s)