[Translators-l] [Fwd: WMF wiki updates]

[Casey Brown]

I completely agree, but I think that's actually what Brion denied
<http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12604>.  If someone
knows more about the extension and can sell it pretty well to Brion,
please do! :-)

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Jon Harald Søby <jhsoby at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Betawiki we have the link encoding ?setlang= which changes the language
> until you setlang something else. But that doesn't work on other wikis, but
> would be a nice feature. Especially useful for Commons links from local
> projects.
>
> 2008/4/29 Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher at gmail.com>:
>
>
> > 2008/4/29 Casey Brown <cbrown1023.ml at gmail.com>:
> >
> > >  Hmm, I think we could manage it if we changed our {{***Lang}}
> > >  templates a little bit.  See for example what we do with Wikimania
> > >  2008 wiki: <http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page> (try
> > >  clicking on the different language links and see what happens to the
> > >  interface).
> >
> > The problem with that is that unless you encode all links with
> > &uselang=XX, the interface will "jump" back to default (English) after
> > just one click. It could be argued that that effect is disorienting,
> > confusing and unexpected (there is no clear way to understand "what
> > you did" to make the localised text disappear, nor "how to get it
> > back").
> >
> > So, IMO that is a very poor hack that is no substitute for a proper
> > solution. (We tried to confront this problem at Commons. :) No good
> > solution yet. More tech is needed.)
> >
> > cheers,
> > Brianna
> >
> > --
> > They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment:
> > http://modernthings.org/
> >
> >
> >
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