https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54646

--- Comment #13 from TMg <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #12)
> The above pages are also linked from the ULS interface.

I'm sorry? First, there is no German documentation for the German method.

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector/Input_methods/de-transliteration

Second, go to the English section and tell me what the two "Phonetic Alphabet"
methods do. There is no explanation, not even an English one. Why are these
methods there if nobody can use them?

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector/Input_methods/ipa-sil
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector/Input_methods/ipa-x-sampa

> Please report with steps to reproduce in Bugzilla.

I tried for days but can't reproduce it. That's the problem. Multiple users
reported random problems with the ULS crashing multiple other scripts.
Disabling the ULS always fixed the problem.

> the default input method for German Wikipedia is "Native keyboard"

This leads to an other question. Whats the difference between enabling "native"
and disabling the input methods completely? Thats an other reason why I call
this thing a "monstrosity". It's completely unclear to most users what it does.
They choose "German" because they have no idea what it does and they think it
must be that way. But almost all German users have a German keyboard with
Umlaut keys. They don't need to set this to "German".

So the problem is: Don't call the setting "German". Call it something like
"Choose this if you are using a non-German keyboard".

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