On 31/08/06, Raimond Spekking raimond.spekking@gmail.com wrote:
A very very nice tool. It's new to me and I will use it in the future.
But we need on Commons a technique to show only those translations of the users language (stored in preferences) with a fallback option to englisch and/or all.
Also usefull for the display of multilanguage descriptions in galleries.
This can be achieved via CSS, for individual users. Put this into your monobook.css:
.description { display: none; } .en { display: block; } .de { display: block; }
This will hide all descriptions by default, then show any English or German.
The major problem with this is that the vast majority of text is incorrectly or not at all tagged. This technique works for things tagged like
{{en|Explanation or caption}}
It won't work for things like
{{English}} Explanation or caption
or
'''en:''' Explanation or caption
There is a technique being developed at Meta called "Language select" ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Language_select ), which uses Javascript and CSS, but is also not site-wide. (See that talk page for discussion about using it on Commons)
I guess what we actually need is another entry in Special:Preferences along the lines of 'show these languages' on multilingual sites. Because for the interface, you can only set one language, whereas there are many multilingual people who would be interested in having multiple languages shown. There are also administrative types like myself who are interested in seeing all languages, even though I can't read most of them, to notice what kind of coverage we have, which languages are needed, spot obvious vandalism, etc.
cheers Brianna