Hi! How about demanding from foundation to allocate some part of latest usability improvement grant/resources (http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikipedia_to_become_more_user-friendly_for_new_volunteer_writers) to solve at some of Commons problems?
As for user language: see comments in similar request about user's gender (https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13040), which also affect quality of MediaWiki localizations. Eugene. On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Lars Aronsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > New user accounts on Wikimedia Commons automatically get a > greeting from [[User:Wikimedia Commons Welcome]]. However, this > greeting is in English and not all users speak English. At the > top of the message there is a list of links to translations in > other languages, but I think there is a better way. > > Since most new user accounts on Commons (about two thirds) are > created by SUL, and arrive through a link that specifies the > uselang= parameter, wouldn't it be very easy to set the user > preference for user interface language from the uselang parameter > when the account is created by SUL? > > The greeting template (and other templates, such as deletion > requests) could then access the user's interface language setting > through a {{USELANG}} magic word, and present the corresponding > translation. > > This way, new Swedish speaking users (who typically arrive from > the Swedish Wikipedia, one that doesn't allow local uploads) could > be guided to the Swedish language village pump and find a > community there. > > > -- > Lars Aronsson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
