On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Ilmari Karonen <[email protected]> wrote:

> Chad wrote:
> > I was going to provide a specific parameter for it. That entire key sucks
> > though anyway, I should probably ditch the md5()'d URL in favor of using
> > the actual name. Fwiw: I've got a patch working, but I'm not quite ready
> > to commit it yet. While we're at it, are we sure we want to use $wgLang
> and
> > not $wgContLang? Image description pages are "content", not a part of
> > the interface. That being said, I would think it would be best to fetch
> the
> > information using the wiki's content language.
>
> Well, if you actually visit the description page on Commons, you'll see
> the templates in your interface language -- that's kind of the _point_
> of the autotranslated templates.
>
> Then again, Commons is kind of a special case, since, being a
> multilingual project, it doesn't _have_ a real content language; in a
> technical sense its content language is English, but that's only because
> MediaWiki requires one language to be specified as a content language
> even if the actual content is multilingual.  So I can see arguments
> either way.
>
> What language is the "shareduploadwiki-desc" message shown in, anyway?
> Seems to be $wgLang, which would seem to suggest that the actual
> description should be shown in the interface language too, for consistency.
>
> --
> Ilmari Karonen
>

Should be done with a wiki's content language as of  r46372.

-Chad
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