https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22985

--- Comment #19 from Nemo <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #18)
> So I don't get your misunderstanding of how the interface language influences
> the content language of the page. It just doesn't. When you surf the Commons
> with English interface, you will unlikely get English contents on the Russian
> page, right? :) So why on the Russian page should the content language rely
> on
> your interface settings?

The Russian reader is supposed to have Russian interface. If you speak Russian
and have Russian interface, and you read a policy page solely written in
English, and the page contains a formatted number or a formatted date, then
you'll see numbers and dates formatted as Russian in the middle of English
text.
This doesn't look like a big problem for me; plus, I still don't see what page
could be using PLURAL, that seems even more unlikely.

> 
> ----
> 
> You may be mixing up translated pages with such things like Autotranslate,
> which exploits a hack of {{int:lang}}. If it's not fixed, then you will
> continue to be delivered Autotranslate'd templates in your interface message.
> That's what I can see.

Indeed, you answer by yourself: most of the mixed-language content is created
by LangSwitch, LanguageSelect, Autotranslate; the inconsistencies created in
single pages by PLURAL and so on are negligible, or rather consistent with the
expected inconsistency, :)
If I have a file page with descriptions in n languages, and a date or number, I
prefer to have the date and number formatted according to my language so that
the 1 description in my interface language is completely correct (and the n-1
other descriptions be inconsistent), rather than having my 1 language wrong, 1
language I don't care about correct and n-2 languages still inconsistent...

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