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Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Multimedia and Commons/Wikimedia Commons: New setting for description language for new uploads/Proposal

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  • Problem: The default language of the website UI can be set. The default website UI language is used for descriptions when a new image is uploaded with UploadWizard. So you can either change your whole interface language or change the language for every upload.
  • Proposed solution: New setting for a default language value
  • Who would benefit: People who write descriptions in languages other than their interface
  • More comments: With that change you can use the interface in your language (eg. japanese) and do not have to switch the language for every new upload when you want to add an english description. An alternative option would be to have a list of your last used languages.

    The main point is: You have to change the language for *every* description (for every file twice if you add a short description) and you may have to search for the language if it's not listed at the very top.

  • Phabricator tickets:
  • Proposer: Hangman'sDeath (talk) 11:31, 18 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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