The following discussion took place in debian-users list, but a link to the archive hasn't come up. I believe the initial post by me and the first reply was forwarded to this list before I subscribed, but never saw a response through this list (I may be wrong). Short story is that the headers of the wiki and the chosen language do not always relate to each other. Some say it has to do with browser configuration but I tested this hypothesis with scripts inactive, a French IP and chose other languages as well. In some the headers (top menus) stay in one language while content changes. But it is inconsistent between languages which indicates a server problem. I intentionally chose languages I do not speak or would ever add in my browser to make sure the problem was not fed by my configuration. Anyway, it is an attempt to make a good thing better, not an individual problem to be solved.
> UTC Time: July 10, 2017 4:49 PM > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > [email protected] <[email protected]> > >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 08:57:35AM -0500, David Wright wrote: >>> On Mon 10 Jul 2017 at 13:32:00 (+0000), Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: >>> > On Dom, 09 Jul 2017, tomas wrote: >>> > >So I think the top menu only reacts to the preferred language set in >>> > >the browser. The wiki content itself obeys both the URL (i.e. the >>> > >intercalated /fr/ element) and to the browser preference. >>> > > >>> > >Does this correspond with your findings? >>> > >>> > That"s also what happens here. >>> >>> … which is as I would expect it. >>> >>> However, I"m only _guessing_ that these pages are active in some way, >> You mean... server-side active, I guess. >> [...] >>> I haven"t seen an actual problem expressed by anyone about what is >>> displayed. Is there one, other than a casual observation? >> Not a real problem. Just a behaviour that confused the original >> poster (I think it was Fungi4All): if your browser lang is "X" >> and you click on the page"s link for lang "Y" and you get a top >> menu in "Xish" and a content in "Yish". The link provided by (was >> it Brian?) in this thread seems to indicate that this confusion >> happens more than once. >> For people who don"t know the browser has a language preferences >> setting (and perhaps have no idea about all that HTTP content >> negotiation stuff), that might be a bit... surprising, leading >> some to guess that there is an IP-based shenanigan behind the >> scenes. >> The confused are hardly to be blamed, given the tendency of >> late to keep users as stupid as possible :-/ >> Regards >> - -- tomás > > I, the OP, have no abilities in German of French, nor do I have these > languages in my browser. I noticed that the wiki, while it was displaying > the default Englsh text, the menus were on a 4th language. Upon the > suggestion to disable scripts, I used my trusty secure browser with a French > IP > and tried. When I selected French just for testing, the menus remained > English. When I selected German it was all German, to me. The more > languages you select the funkier and more inconsistent the results were. > In some languages you may click a link and revert back to English, possibly > because of the page being in another english default server. > No matter what is at fault the wiki server results are inconsistent.
