Jean-Frédéric, 22/01/2013 16:14:
(Please keep commons-l cc-ed, not everyone is subscribed to mediawiki-i18n. :)
Could the extension can, or be tweaked to, help with our other multilingual content? […] LS is already deprecated and should be killed at least for templates (multichill told me very few if any still use it, right?);Well, it has more than 3.7 millions transclusions… See also https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Internationalization_templates_using_LangSwitch
Sorry, I meant LanguageSelect (LS/WM:LS on Meta), not LangSwitch.
Just asking: would it play nicely with our AnonymousI18N script? <https://commons.wikimedia.__org/wiki/MediaWiki:__AnonymousI18N.js <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:AnonymousI18N.js>> If it's what I remember, that would be superseded.AFAIK, AnonymousI18N handles the following :
- Language selection → Handled − that is kind of the purpose of the Universal Language
*Selector* right ? ;-)
- Language suggestion, based on « data from cookie, referal url &
browser settings » "referal" means that AnonymousI18N can detect that your are coming from it.wikipedia.org http://it.wikipedia.org, your interface should be in Italian → What about ULS ?
I think ULS is smarter than that.
- Language “uselang” persistency, regardless of the previous
Meaning, if landing on Commons from a URL with ?uselang=fr (obviously from templates on projects, but also from links everywhere [people like me who always tweet/write links with a uselang ;-)]), the ?uselang=fr is set for all outbound links, meaning language persistency.
→ ULS does not appear to do that from my test on TranslateWiki. (Arriving from https://translatewiki.net/?uselang=it, interface in Italian ; clicking a link, interface in French)
This is an "abuse" of ?uselang, more "standard" would be ?setlang. The selection is persistent with ULS, but uselang is not the way to make it; uselang still works as usual, though. What features of ULS can be enabled or not, I'm not able to say. As Niklas replied on Commons on this point, I guess it's better to continue there?
Nemo