https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9040
MZMcBride <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |RESOLVED CC| |[email protected] Resolution| |WONTFIX --- Comment #16 from MZMcBride <[email protected]> 2011-10-14 02:22:16 UTC --- (In reply to comment #12) > They are page names just like everything else, and we don't have all article > names in English in different language Wikipedias. No, they're not. Is there a way to make this more obvious? :-) I agree with a "wontfix" here (and I'm re-marking this bug as resolved), but for better reasoning. Localized special page names are good. They're user-facing titles that don't have any need to be in English only. The fact that other parts of the URL are in English are separate bugs, not features. However, the underlying issue here is that it's annoying to switch between special pages between languages because simple URL manipulation (changing the language code) doesn't work with the special page name being translated. And this is certainly annoying. There are ways to make the user experience better, but for most users, the answer is most certainly not doing less localization. As someone suggested, you can file a separate request to put other wikis in the sidebar. This has difficulties, of course, as this problem is largely confined to wiki families (as opposed to most MediaWiki installations, which are independent) and in some wiki families, there are a lot of wiki projects (sidebar bloat). There are other possible solutions to this problem, but any solution has to be weighed against the cost of additional code or consequences to other users. The reality is that using URL manipulation to switch between Special pages is a power-user feature. That's fine, but if it's only going to benefit a very small number of people, they can use power-tools, such as client-side JavaScript. There is already infrastructure in place to make this easier, e.g., <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Snippets>. If you get creative, you can surely come up with some other ways to implement this functionality. And that's great. But for core MediaWiki, most users will never hit this use-case, so the additional code and possible consequences (non-translated page titles, etc.) aren't worth it and likely won't ever be. -- 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
