I also prefer not to add magic words in the first place. But if it is added, it shouldn't change the way the other magic words are interpreted; only magic words from the wiki's language should be used.
Or no magic words at all - just use a language picker at the editing page. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore 2013/4/25 Brian Wolff <[email protected]>: > 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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
