https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24086

--- Comment #8 from yonidebest <[email protected]> 2010-06-24 11:12:56 UTC 
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(In reply to comment #7)
> I can see how it'd be confusing coming from Monobook, though. If the hewiki
> community wants to use another order, they can rearrange the links with JS.

I disagree. I opened the request because I wanted the change to be encoded into
the he.wikipedia source, and not be done using js. From the community's POV,
this "fix" isn't a fix, but a problem. Thus, I don't see why a problem should
be reated only for it to be fixed using JS on user-side.

> The Try Beta link was *intended* to appear at the beginning of p-personal,
> before the user page link. That's also where it is on LTR wikis: on the left
> side. On hewiki in Vector, you'll notice that it's on the right side, because
> that's where the personal tools list begins in RTL. In Monobook it would 
> appear
> on the left side if it weren't for your local JS moving it to the right. It
> seems to me that this backs up the argument that it makes sense for p-personal
> to be flipped in RTL.

I disagree. The Try Beta link was inserted without asking the community where
they'd like it to be, thus it was fixed using JS. This was not the correct way
to handle it, but the easy way. The correct way would have been to fix the
source code so that the Try Beta link would appear when the community wishes it
to be.

The theory that Hebrew speakers read left aligned text in RTL direction needs
to be checked. I will present the question to the community and see what the
Hebrew speakers think (I read English too, so my opinion isn't worth anything).

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