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I opened https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:NewItem?uselang=de&site=dewiki&page=Pik%20Alexander%20von%20Humboldt&label=Pik%20Alexander%20von%20Humboldt and filled in the field "Beschreibung". The UniversalLanguageSelector was set to "Deutsch" (German).

So the fields were

  • Bezeichnung: Pik Alexander von Humboldt
  • Beschreibung: Berg im Tian-Shan-Gebirge in Kirgisistan
  • Website der ersten verlinkten Seite: dewiki
  • Titel der ersten verlinkten Seite: Pik Alexander von Humboldt

After creating the item, the result was this: https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q18778676&oldid=188277395

As you can see there, label ("Bezeichnung") and description ("Beschreibung") were saved in English.

Same happened for another user here: https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q18775638&oldid=188261511
The form was German, but the content (i.e. label and description) was saved as English.

To make it even more confusing, when I tried it before (same procedure as above) with another article, it worked fine (see https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q18778388&oldid=188275504; label and description saved in German).

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Change 187355 had a related patch set uploaded (by Adrian Lang):
Introduce content language concept for SpecialNewEntity

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/187355

Patch-For-Review

Change 187355 merged by jenkins-bot:
Introduce content language concept for SpecialNewEntity

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/187355

Change 187679 had a related patch set uploaded (by JanZerebecki):
Introduce content language concept for SpecialNewEntity

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/187679

Patch-For-Review

Change 187679 merged by jenkins-bot:
Introduce content language concept for SpecialNewEntity

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/187679