2013/4/24 Paul Selitskas <[email protected]>:
> I've already tried both using page properties to store page content
> language and modifying ContentHandler::getPageLanguage()[1]. In both
> cases parser worked in a different language scope and didn't process
> magic words written in a default wiki language (e.g. Russian
> [[Категория:Test]] wouldn't work on a German page; English had to be
> used in both pages). It's OK for a wiki with the English language as
> default, but if such multi-lingual wiki worked for years with German
> on board, and then you implement the above said, all pages in other
> languages wouldn't be parsed properly.

If I understand correctly, the Visual Editor should gradually
eliminate the need for users to use magic words directly, as well as
for stuff like [[Category:]] and #REDIRECT. It should all be done
using a GUI eventually. So the need for localized magic words should
disappear, too.

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