[Foundation-l] The status of smaller languages on the Wikimedia Commons

Sun May 7 00:21:45 UTC 2006

Am Samstag, 06. Mai 2006 19:24 schrieb SJ:
> I find the discussion of "uselang=" the most interesting on that page.
>  This would be a crude first step towards giving anonymous readers
> more of a say in how they browse the site.  Perhaps uselang choices
> could also be pulled from browser settings, and potentially set as a
> cookie independent of them logging in (for those who never create /
> don't want accounts).

The problem is that many people like me look at different languages on a daily 
basis in order to work in Wikimedia Commons that's why I personally was 
reserved on these "uselang" link in the language templates.

But I would really appreciate a cookie based solution that way that anonymous 
users can choose their interface language or directly set it via browser 
language settings. There exists even a patch for it but it was rejected due 
to caching problems:

http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3665

So as there is code existing I don't think a solution hacked into the wiki 
page code with negative side effects is the best way to go but a clean 
solution that satisfies all people way better in the MediaWiki software.

Regards,
Daniel Arnold / Arnomane