[Mediawiki-i18n] RTL-lang messages in a multilingual wiki

[Brianna Laugher]

Hello,

Please compare
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&uselang=he&type=signup
to
http://he.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&uselang=he&type=signup

On Commons, the messages appear RTL text direction which is correct,
but on the left, which I imagine is as unnatural as right-aligning for
English.

Evidently there is some sitewide setting for he.wp that tells it to
display messages right aligned. Commons default language is English
which is left aligned. I guess that using uselang=he is not enough for
it to display messages right aligned?

Should we (Commons) go and insert <span align="right"> around every /he message?
Would this solve it?
(Would this be a *good way* to solve it?)

thanks,
Brianna
user:pfctdayelise