https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37703
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Bug #: 37703
Summary: Interlanguage list should be rendered according to
context language (user interface language)
Product: MediaWiki
Version: 1.20-git
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Keywords: code-update-regression
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Internationalization
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected],
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Classification: Unclassified
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Created attachment 10767
--> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/attachment.cgi?id=10767
Screenshot of current git master as deployed on commons.wikimedia.org
(1.20wmf5)
Recently the rendering of the interlanguage list was changed from:
* Sentence case rendering of the language name in the origin language (e.g. in
an English interface French would be rendered as "Francais").
To:
* loose word rendering of the language name in the origin language (e.g. in
French the language name is usually written lowercase in a sentence, so it is
rendered as "francais" (lower case) regardless of context/user interface
language).
I think the ideal solution is to render it like this:
* Sentence case rendering of the language name in the user interface language
(e.g. French would be rendered as "French" for an English user, regardless of
the content language, and Dutch as "Dutch". And for a Dutch user it would read
"Frans" and "Nederland". And for a French user interface it would read
"francais" and "néerlandais" (lower case).
But since right now we don't all language names in all language, I recommend we
revert this recent change to the status quo until we can go all the way.
Because right now the interlanguage list looks (imho) very broken to the
average user (e.g. written by someone not caring about grammer, inconsistent
capitalization). See attachment.
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See also:
* bug 36819
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