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. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
