https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28970

--- Comment #6 from Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]> 2011-06-21 
21:41:59 UTC ---
There's a directionality for the website's interface, which should always match
the language set in the preferences. This already seems to work well in Robin's
test wiki. (Robin, you're amazing :)

For content pages - articles, help, etc., the directionality of the content may
be different from the directionality of the website. This happens in Commons
and Meta all the time, and it's a major PITA, and it sometimes happens in other
projects, too on "embassy" pages and the like. People need to see the English
Village Pump in Commons in LTR, no matter what their interface language is, and
vice versa.

Having two directionalities in one content page is rarer. For the time being it
can be reasonably handled by using div tags.

Another special case is discussions, which can be RTL and LTR on the same page
quite often. It's also a PITA, but if LiquidThreads is being actively
developed, the directionality of discussions should be discussed in that
context.

If i understand correctly, bug 9360 suggests showing some pages in another
interface language if that language is set as the content language of the page
and it also suggests that setting the language would involve HTML tags. It's a
good idea, although it should be given some thought, because there are many
possible scenarios for that. I would say that that is a separate bug.

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