On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Marcus Buck <[email protected]> wrote:

> At the moment image description pages on our projects that are
> transcluded from Commons will be shown in English. That was no problem
> for the last four years cause the pages basically all were in English.
> But with the autotranslate template on Commons now many templates can be
> shown in any language. It would be very useful, if the transcluded pages
> on the local projects would be shown in the content language or user
> language too.
>
> If I am not mistaken, its the function "getDescriptionRenderUrl" in
> "FileRepo.php" that gets the image description page from Commons. We
> should add "'uselang='. $wgLang->getCode()" as an additional parameter,
> so the page is rendered in the right language. (I don't know the code
> well and had only a brief look into the file, perhaps some additional
> changes are needed. The developers will know best.)
>
> Can this be done?
>
> Marcus Buck
>

Should be pretty doable. As long as we keep caching the description
pages heavily (as we do now), it shouldn't be a problem. Would just
need to tweak the cache key to include the specified language as
well.

-Chad
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