Fallback languages are sort of "back-up" languages. For example, language AA has language BB as fallback. So if a message doesn't exist in AA, it uses the message from BB. If that doesn't exist, then it will use the message from en. (However, I think that if language BB has a fallback, it might use that instead. So you have language CC as well. And that can in theory go on through all languages, though that's not likely at all. Not sure about that though.)<br>
<br>So we have the following cases:<br><br>en: the global fallback language<br>
xx: any fallback language. All languages can have one, except for English.<br>AA: the language of a wiki<br>BB: a language set in a user's settings<br>CC: a language set by ?uselang=<br><br>So the order if a message doesn't exist in a given language is the following:<br>
<br>Case 1: Default, on a non-English wiki:<br><br>AA<br>AA-xx<br>en<br><br>Case 2: If a user has a different language in their settings:<br><br>BB<br>BB-xx<br>en<br><br>Case 3: If a different language is set by ?uselang=<br>
<br>CC<br>CC-xx<br>en<br><br>For MediaWiki:message/yy, I believe that is the same, but I have not tested it. Also, I believe there is a bug about this, for cases 2 and 3, that it should fall back to AA instead of en. I don't know its number though.<br>
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2008/3/26, Brianna Laugher <<a href="mailto:brianna.laugher@gmail.com">brianna.laugher@gmail.com</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 26/03/2008, Gerard Meijssen <<a href="mailto:gerard.meijssen@gmail.com">gerard.meijssen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> > Hoi,<br> > As far as I understand it, for an anonymous user the message is first the<br> > language of the Wiki, then the fall back language for that language and then<br>
> English.<br> <br> <br>What does "fall back language for that language" mean? Are you<br> referring to getting messages from MediaWiki: pages or MessagesXX.php<br> files?<br> <br> And what happens when the uselang=XX parameter it used in the URL?<br>
which was my original question.<br> <br><br> thanks<br> Brianna<br> <br> --<br> They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment:<br> <a href="http://modernthings.org/">http://modernthings.org/</a><br> <br>
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