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
>
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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
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