https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22764
Summary: uselang parameter for action=parse?
Product: MediaWiki
Version: 1.16-svn
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Normal
Component: API
AssignedTo: roan.katt...@gmail.com
ReportedBy: lupo.bugzi...@gmail.com
CC: bryan.tongm...@gmail.com, s...@reedyboy.net,
vasi...@gmail.com, soxre...@gmail.com
Could we have a uselang parameter for action=parse, please?
Background: the Commons uses a {{LangSwitch}} template to provide content in
the user's interface language (license templates, the {{information}} template,
and others). This works pretty well (from a user perspective; I don't know if
it's actually 100% sound what they do, see bug 14404... but I guess if it
really weren't OK, it would've been shut down long ago.) It even works when a
file description page is viewed at another wiki (non-local file).
However, if we want to get information through JavaScript from some other wiki
about a file on the Commons (such as the file description), we cannot use a
direct API call at the commons due to cross-domain restrictions. Using an
importScript with a callback works, but treats the user as a non-logged-in
anon. So you can't present, through JavaScript, information from the Commons
respecting the user language setting. (A local API call would just return
information about the non-existing local file or file page, so that's no good
either.)
With a uselang parameter for action=parse, that'd be possible. (If that uselang
parameter was honored even if the user is treated as an anon, that is.)
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