Why doesn't the step where we save wikitext entered by someone on an article automatically substitute "File:" for the localized version upon save? This would be friendlier to people who are new to using wikitext. Even better if the localized version of "File:" in any language would be automatically converted to the current wiki's. The latter would certainly solve all the issues, it would allow us to display the localized wikitext in Media Viewer's "share" according to the site's language or even the viewer's language settings, regardless of which wiki they're on. Then when they use it on a different wiki, it would automatically be subtituted for the one approved by the community they're contributing to. I'm not talking about a redirect like 41845 , I'm talking about rewriting the wikitext automatically on save.
Given my limited experience of editing articles, if I was entering things manually and writing "File:" (or the equivalent in a language I speak), I'd be pretty put off if it didn't work on the wiki I'm editing or if some community members told me that it's not the right syntax for this wiki and that I need to fix it. It seems like an unnecessary detail that a casual contributor shouldn't have to worry about. It should just magically work.
On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.comwrote:
Pau Giner, 06/05/2014 09:05:
when I paste it into a German wikipedia it either: (a) gets adapted
automatically, (b) gets adapted and provides a choice to undo the automatic adaptation or (c) is not modified but an option is provided to do so.
None of these is possible unless you convert from canonical (English) to localised, cf. bug 41845 (note, Daniel proposed something to make multilingual wikis special, as perhaps Mark was thinking: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41845#c8 ).
Anyway, I'm a bit puzzled by this discussion. Content language has always worked, why change? If something makes existing workflows broken, then something is probably wrong.
Nemo
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