In /admin default language is selected to english on resource pages

[YashAgrawal9265]

Description

In the admin interface, on resource pages, staff can select the language of fields they want to edit. 90% of the time we want to edit the English versions, so I have added English language as selected in the drop down by default.

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Rationale

Phabricator Ticket

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T240170

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[Samwalton9]

Can I just confirm that when you open, for example, /admin/resources/partner/1/change/, the language selector at the top of the page defaults to English? That's not clear from the screenshots.

[YashAgrawal9265]

I have checked, it is showing English by default..

and when we click on + button then also it is showing English language by default.

[Samwalton9]

Hi Yash,

Unfortunately this isn't quite what I had in mind with this ticket. When browsing a resource, there is a language selector at the top of the page:

It's this selector (which is ar by default) which we want to default to English.

Sorry that my description on Phabricator wasn't clear enough, I can see how it was ambiguous!

[YashAgrawal9265]

Hi Sam,
I got it.
So tell me that now I have to make it default as en or en-gb ?

[Samwalton9]

en :)

[YashAgrawal9265]

Hi Sam,
I am unable to find the Add Partner in Partner models. Can you help me?

[YashAgrawal9265]

Hi Sam,
Can you help me that, how I can access the language field which is beside of Add Partner, which I have marked in above image

[Samwalton9]

@YashAgrawal9265 This isn't a model field, rather it's a capability added by the Modeltranslation application (https://django-modeltranslation.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).

I think this is the information you need on how to change the default, but I could be wrong: https://django-modeltranslation.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html?highlight=default#modeltranslation-default-language

[YashAgrawal9265]

@Samwalton9

In settings.py the default language is already selected to the en by default.
According to me for solving this issue, changes should be done in translation.py file. I have tried some changes, but they are giving errors.
Can You help me out that what changes should I do in translation.py to solve the issue?

[Samwalton9]

Hey Yash - I'm not sure how to proceed with this, it's clearly not something we can change easily in a configuration variable. I'd suggest you work on other tasks because this is a very low priority task for us and we don't have much bandwidth to provide help :)

[suecarmol]

Since this task is a low priority and the team is focusing on other work, I am going to close this PR. Once we have more bandwidth to take a look at this, we can re-open this PR (or even create a new one).