[Wikipedia-l] Use of images (again)

Wed Jun 28 15:51:59 UTC 2006

Berto wrote:
> Hi again!
> 
>> (Universal login: we at Commons await it more than anyone else,
>> possibly. ;)) As for English login, not quite. We have managed to
>> internationalise the login as much as possible: see
>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Userlogin .
> 
> Yes, I've used it myself. The main problem is that most users who are afraid
> of english will never get to see, because they will simply not click on the
> *login* link.

I've registered and edited on several Wikipedias where I don't speak the
language; I've managed to work everything out based on the the location
and URLs of the links.

> Anyway, if we can setup a proper instruction page on local
> bases (that is, on pms) we can bridge this. The same would apply to
> interliki links. If one can mantain a usable UI on *any* edition he will not
> fear trying even the most exotic language... and this really is a quick way
> to locate additional pics to use in a given context.
> 

Maybe the local links to Commons could have "?uselang=" at the end of
the URLs?

>> ) that it is now possible to have "Optional language selector for user
>> login/registration forms". So I certainly hope Commons will be the
>> first place to implement that.
>
> I see it on all editions (more precisely: IT, EN, META, COMMONS) even now...
> so probably we talk about different selectors. My common:user works in pms
> lang, so do my it:user, en:user, meta:user, etc. What worries me is that a
> user needs to undergo a first page in a foreign language, in order to do
> this. If we could just send the user language as a link parameter we could
> probably solve the problem...
> 

It's doable. See
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Userlogin?uselang=it

>>> 2) there is no way for a local edition to use commons as an "included"
>>> service (that is, one page as another, inside the edition).
>
> I mean having your upload page instead of mine.
<snip>

Aha:

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Especial:Upload

Not sure how, but es: has disabled image uploading.

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