https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41807

--- Comment #8 from Nikola Smolenski <[email protected]> 2012-11-07 10:43:06 
UTC ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> (In reply to comment #6)
> > > * What do we put into the HTTP Content-Language header? I think "mul" 
> > > would > 
> > Interface language, which is also the language of the title of the page. 
> 
> Makes sense for Wikidata. Probably not for Wikipedia. If you browse the German
> language Wikipedia with an English interface, would you consider the content
> language to be English?

Of course, German.

Offtopic, for http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hauptseite I would expect it to
be German as well. Perhaps a parser function that can change that?

> > > I doubt that there are renderings for the town "Rackwitz"
> > > in languages other than German. Having to set this string redundantly for 
> > > 300
> > 
> > You lost your bet: Serbian rendering is Раквиц in Cyrillic or Rakvic in 
> > Latin.
> 
> Duh! Wikipedia never ceases to amaze me. 19 Languages! For a town that doesn't
> even have a gas station or a hair dresser!
> 
> Anyway. There's quite a few places that we don't have translations or
> transliterations for.

But in quite a few cases we can automatically convert them. A German-Serbian
transliterator would probably be able to cover 90% of German cities correctly,
including Rackwitz. Serbian-Macedonian or Japanese-Serbian transliterator could
work perfectly.

> > You owe me one beer at the Bavaria pub at the destroyed church; John will 
> > tell
> > you why is this bad for you :)
> 
> I owe you a beer, but let me pick the pub :)

C-Base it is, then ;)

> > But I fully agree with this, and I would even go one step further: use the 
> > code
> > mul-de (multilingual content of German origin). This would allow us to in 
> > some
> > cases automatically convert and display the names in languages that use
> > different alphabets.
> 
> Oh, nice idea!

Yes, it is also required for the transliterator to work.

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