Last modified: 2013-09-11 12:06:32 UTC
If I want to put a date in (say a release date), I can do it numerically, or I can do it with text like "November 2, 2001", which is how it's expressed in English Wikipedia infoboxes. I cannot, however, imput dates on Wikidata by putting in "14 de febrero de 2002", which is how it's expressed in the Spanish Wikipedia infoboxes. Now, I'm not a Spanish speaker, I'm an English speaker, so this doesn't effect me, but the lack of support for other languages has to be impacting quite a few people. I tested a few languages "1999년 9월 30일" (Korean), "28. Oktober 1999" (German), "16 novembre 1999" (French), etc., and if there's any language other than English that's supported, I haven't found it. It'd be really nice if we could support other languages' date formats.
This works fine for me. You need to set your language in the Universal Language selector to the language you want to input data in.
