On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Nikola Smolenski <[email protected]> wrote: > Дана Friday 11 September 2009 00:29:54 Erik Moeller написа: >> 2009/9/9 Tisza Gergő <[email protected]>: >> > The LanguageSelector extension [1] can automatically set the interface >> > language based on browser settings, which is nowadays the norm for >> > every serious multilanguage web page. It is not used on WMF wikis, >> > because it would interfere with caching. >> >> I'm not convinced using the browser language settings for anything >> other than suggestions is a good practice, as it doesn't necessarily >> relate at all to language speaking ability of the user behind the >> browser (think Internet cafes, shared computers, etc.). I notice that >> it's possible to disable this behavior in the extension and just use >> it as a UI language picker, which I agree would be useful if we can >> make it work efficiently. > > I believe I can say as a professional that you are correct, albeit it is my > opinion that the browser settings can be usefully used as long as you leave > the user quick, simple and obvious ability to change the language on his own. > > One thing that would be *extremely* useful regardless is the ability to keep a > language throughout the browsing session. This would mean that on, say, > Italian Wikipedia, you could have a link to Wikimedia Commons like > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pagina_principale?uselang=it - and when > someone clicks on the featured picture *the interface would stay in Italian* > and then when someone clicks on Entra / Registrati *the interface still stays > in Italian*, and when someone actually registers the interface becomes > Italian in his preferences and so on. This would do a lot for acceptance of > Commons among the Wikipedias, and from there I see other useful ways it could > be used. If this is done, recognition of the browser language could be more > easily be experimented with. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
I looked at this exact issue before (there's a bug for it too). It should be _very_ trivial to set uselang values into the session or a cookie. Right now uselang= only works on the page you're on, which isn't ideal. -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
