https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25476
--- Comment #15 from Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> 2010-10-13 06:55:45 UTC --- Note also that we already have the support for internationalizable templates with the special "int:" namespace (whose value is stored in the "mediawiki:" namespace. This is extensively used in Translatewiki.net's wiki itself; it will benefit from the same efforts for internationalization and translations, and can be deployed as easily as when distributing new translations. What you propose will NOT avoid the cache problem: we really want to have the same page rendered differently between users reading the wiki (but it could help if the saved page was unique. In other words, your solution solves absolutely nothing and just complicates things even more for no benefit at all ! The cache on the opposite already has the support to deliver distinct renderings of the same wiki source page, according to user's UI language (only). For now all we have is a client-side javascript () that only works with dates saved in the US-English format, and incorrectly matches all dates that it may find by parsing all the contents in the page. It is not reliable, and does not work across wikis (in addition to not being accessible for WAI). So this user-selectable plugin does not work (in addition it is not deployed). The main problem for me is when I visit an site written in Indic scripts, or in Chinese, Arabic, Persian... these dates are undecipherable without lots of efforts and knowledge of its language (for month names, week day names...). And users in these wikis have the same difficulties when they try to read-write the discussions found in other Latin-written wikis. Even for Latin-written wikis, those dates are sometimes very confusive (due to their translation, or because of swapped fields, notably between d/m/y or y/md/d order, or because of unusual timezones that are indicated using a locally translated string, which is undecipherable for lot of people). -- 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
