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September 21

User language

When I log in, all appears in unknown to me language, probably Romanian. How can I keep English when I am logged in? Thank you, Maxaxax (talk) 00:13, 21 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

What URL shows up when you first log in? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 01:01, 21 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

At the top of your screen there should be a line with a symbol looking like a chess pawn, followed by your user name, then probably a bell and a screen symbol, then some words. If the language is indeed Romanian, the third word is Preferințe. (The fourth word should be Beta.) Click that third word, and you will land on the User profile page of your preferences. On that page there should be a bold heading like Internaționalizare, under which there is a box in which you can select your language preference, currently probably set to "ro - română". Select "en - English", check the box below if it is not already checked, and click the blue button at the bottom of the page, with a text like Salvează . This will save the language preference change. --Lambiam 01:10, 21 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You should be able to fix this at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences?uselang=en . Generally, when something is in the wrong language, you can always try to append "?uselang=en" to the URL. —Kusma (talk) 07:55, 21 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]