Page MenuHomePhabricator

English-language names in the ULS are displayed differently on the English Wikipedia for non-Latin-script languages
Closed, InvalidPublicBUG REPORT

Assigned To
None
Authored By
Hakimi97
Sun, Jun 14, 2:13 AM
Referenced Files
F88402200: image.png
Sun, Jun 14, 2:17 AM
F88401484: image.png
Sun, Jun 14, 2:13 AM
F88401290: image.png
Sun, Jun 14, 2:13 AM
F88401109: image.png
Sun, Jun 14, 2:13 AM
F88400576: image.png
Sun, Jun 14, 2:13 AM
F88399398: image.png
Sun, Jun 14, 2:13 AM
F88400667: image.png
Sun, Jun 14, 2:13 AM

Description

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

  • Enable "Universal Language Selector rewrite" beta feature on Preferences.
  • Enable SidebarTranslate gadget
  • Open any English Wikipedia pages, for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate
  • Click on the language portlet ("XX languages" button on the right side of the article title).

What happens?:

  • Notice that for language names that are displayed in non-Latin scripts on other Wikipedias (ULS rewrite beta feature is also enabled), but displayed as corresponding English names on the English Wikipedia, such as "Japanese", "Arabic" and "Persian", these English language names are displayed with the non-Latin scripts language flavour. It is observable that typical Japanese wide characters were used for the "Japanese" language label, whereas the "Persian", "Arabic" and "Chinese" labels seem thinner and positioned lower than let say, "Malay" or "Indonesian" labels.

image.png (913×631 px, 104 KB)

What should have happened instead?:
If the language name is localized to English, then the styling for localize language name labels should be shown in English.

Software version (on Special:Version page; skip for WMF-hosted wikis like Wikipedia):

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

Event Timeline

Hakimi97 updated the task description. (Show Details)
Reedy renamed this task from English-language names in the ULS are displayed differently on the English Wikipedia for non-Latin-script languages. to English-language names in the ULS are displayed differently on the English Wikipedia for non-Latin-script languages.Sun, Jun 14, 12:33 PM

Apparently this bug is related to SidebarTranslate gadget:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-SidebarTranslate.js
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-SidebarTranslate.css

Perhaps some works need to be done on the SidebarTranslate gadget instead? Need some input here about this.

Hakimi97 closed this task as Invalid.EditedSun, Jun 14, 2:58 PM

For now I will close the task as "Invalid" since I feel like it is more of a gadget problem. Feel free to re-open this task again if it is needed.