https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18616
^demon <innocentkil...@gmail.com> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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CC| |innocentkil...@gmail.com
Component|Language setup |File/Repo
Product|Wikimedia |MediaWiki
--- Comment #2 from ^demon <innocentkil...@gmail.com> 2009-04-30 23:22:12 UTC
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In general, when fetching remote content we prefer to have it render before
fetching. There's no guarantee that the local wiki knows how to handle all of
the magic words that the foreign one does. This can end up with poorly-rendered
content.
(In reply to comment #0)
> So it would be very helpful for readers to only show the description in the
> local language, using {{CONTENTLANGUAGE}} (one may even give the option to
> show
> other languages if desired). So this magic word would be evaluated locally.
> For
> other magic words, I imagine there may be reasons not to do it, we may ask at
> commons about that.
>
FWIW, we should already be doing this. I added fetching remote descriptions
with uselang back in r46369...which btw, is a big hack for commons mostly, and
should be replaced with a more defined interface for fetching descriptions,
rather than hoping action=render gives us what we want.
Repurposing as a FileRepo bug, because it has nothing to do with language setup
@ Wikimedia, nor is it really an i18n issue at all.
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