[Mediawiki-l] Language interface

Wed Apr 27 07:06:30 UTC 2005

That's interesting.

To go back to the original question. How easy is it to change the
interface language without the log-in? or would the Wookie
(Wiki-cookie :-)) stored on the computer constantly swap the UI back
to the one set in User Prefs?

Has anyone seen a Wiki with the UI language choice promoted to the
Main page rather than hidden in User Prefs?

On 4/27/05, Brion Vibber <brion at pobox.com> wrote:
> Muke Tever wrote:
> > I was just about to ask about this as well.  Is there (or could there be),
> > say, a magic URL string to append, like &lang=fr , to force the fr UI to be
> > displayed?
> 
> There is not. Hypothetically something could be added with some effort.
> Maintaining it across invocations would probably require some cookie /
> session work, and you'd need to be careful about cache integrity.
> 
> > In a similar vein, is there a magic word that automatically returns the
> > current interface language code?
> 
> The _content_ of pages is immutable, and will never differ based on the
> user interface language setting. (Only a very few user options affect
> the output of the wiki -> HTML transformation, and we're working hard to
> eliminate them completely because of the trouble they cause.) This goes
> doubly for things containing links, categories, images, etc: anything
> that is kept track of cannot change or you'll have database corruption
> on your hands.
> 
> We already have huge troubles maintaining database integrity in the face
> of date and time variables and templates.
> 
> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
> 
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