On 2013-04-25 9:12 AM, "Amir E. Aharoni" <[email protected]> wrote: > > 2013/4/25 Brian Wolff <[email protected]>: > > On 2013-04-25 7:04 AM, "Erik Moeller" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 9:08 PM, Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Hi Brian, > >> > >> > We already have the page lang support. > >> > >> What do you mean by that? AFAICT there's no existing designated place > >> in the schema for associating a content language with a specific page. > > > > There's nothing in the schema. But we do (since 1.19) have a notion of > > "page language" separate from content language. See the PageContentLanguage > > hook and related code. So all that needs to be done is add something to the > > schema to actually store a value. > > That, and a way for the user to specify that language. Either through > a magic word or through a language selector on the editing page > (either ULS or a dropdown). Of course, the wiki language should be the > default. Is there anything else to it? > > That's a as far as a page language goes; It is also useful to specify > the language of chunks of a page. Currently it's done with the HTML > lang attribute, either raw or through templates. It should probably be > done using the VisualEditor, and I already wrote a general spec for it > a while ago: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Internationalization_requirements > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > “We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Im personally opposed to using a magic word for this. Having a magic word that changes how magic words encountered prior to it are interpreted, not to mention changing how it itself is interpreted seems to be just asking for trouble. -bawolff _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
