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.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/4/29 Brianna Laugher <<a href="mailto:brianna.laugher@gmail.com">brianna.laugher@gmail.com</a>>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
2008/4/29 Casey Brown <<a href="mailto:cbrown1023.ml@gmail.com">cbrown1023.ml@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">> Hmm, I think we could manage it if we changed our {{***Lang}}<br>
> templates a little bit. See for example what we do with Wikimania<br>
> 2008 wiki: <<a href="http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page" target="_blank">http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page</a>> (try<br>
> clicking on the different language links and see what happens to the<br>
> interface).<br>
<br>
</div>The problem with that is that unless you encode all links with<br>
&uselang=XX, the interface will "jump" back to default (English) after<br>
just one click. It could be argued that that effect is disorienting,<br>
confusing and unexpected (there is no clear way to understand "what<br>
you did" to make the localised text disappear, nor "how to get it<br>
back").<br>
<br>
So, IMO that is a very poor hack that is no substitute for a proper<br>
solution. (We tried to confront this problem at Commons. :) No good<br>
solution yet. More tech is needed.)<br>
<br>
cheers,<br>
Brianna<br>
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