https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61115
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Bug ID: 61115
Summary: Drop URL parameter setlang
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: master
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: UniversalLanguageSelector
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
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Depends on: 44649
Classification: Unclassified
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At the moment it is possible to change the user interface language with the URL
parameter setlang in a GET request. GET should be a safe method which should
not change the state of the server.[1]
Bug 49299 gets WONTFIXed by comment 1: "Given that the user will get a popup to
switch back easily, and that changing the language (afaict) is just an
annoyance for the user, I'm not convinced."[2]
A possibility to switch back does not make this behavior to a safe method.
I suggest to drop the URL parameter setlang completely and suggest two
alternatives:
1. Change the user interface language via API and open the page without
parameter in the desired language. Described in bug 44649 and implemented in
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/110360 for mw.uls.changeLanguage().
The language can still changed with a single click and the new page has no
troublesome URL parameter.
2. On situations where no API call is possible use uselang instead of setlang
and implement a popup to easily keep this language instead of the popup to
switch back easily. The user has explicitly to confirm the change of the user
setting by a single click. This is important because the link can come from a
foreign page.
For a transition time the parameter setlang can have the same behavior as the
parameter uselang.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol#Safe_methods
[2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49299#c1
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