You're hitting on a core issue here, which is the lack of support for multilingual projects. Mediawiki does not currently support this. Using hacks such as uselang has helped hide the issue, but its far from ideal. I would venture that multilingual content could be handled with the user's language setting/headers/uselang param being helpful to show the appropriate content. Until that happens, each project only has one content language. In cases like the ones you mentioned, this happens to be English. Let's suppose I use the French Wikipedia with Arabic interface. I would find it very odd that the content is not in French, even though I use Arabic as my interface language.
On multilingual projects, its ok to present in your user language. On single-language projects it is not. Using uselang for content is an icky hack anyway. Multilingual projects need to be supported in core, or we're just going to perpetuate these hacks. Basically, I figured support the majority of cases (single language projects) rather than the minority (multi- language projects). The former get the benefit of the hack, the latter see no change. -Chad On Jan 27, 2009 4:08 PM, "Marcus Buck" <[email protected]> wrote: Chad hett schreven: > Should be done with a wiki's content language as of r46372. > > -Chad Thanks! That's already a big improvement, but why content language? As I pointed out in response to your question, it need's to be user language on Meta, Incubator, Wikispecies, Beta Wikiversity, old Wikisource, and all the multilingual wikis of third party users. It's not actually necessary on non-multilingual wikis, but it does no harm either. So why content language? This could be solved with a setting in LocalSettings.php "isMultilingual", but that's another affair and as long as that does not exist, we should use user language. Marcus Buck _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected].... _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
