[Apologies, I get these on digest so I'm probably a bit behind.]

On Thu, 21 Aug 2014, Legoktm <legoktm.wikipedia@gmail.com> wrote:

* How do you plan on localizing the black banner with English words in
it? MediaWiki supports localized SVGs if I remember correctly, but
doesn't have a method to translate them (E:TranslateSvg hasn't been
deployed yet).

Just to expand slightly, the current state of SVG translation remains problematic, insofar as
all users must currently receive the same language SVG (for rationale, see changeset #95746).

Thus MediaWiki cannot show this same SVG based on content language alone. However,

given that we now have a clear usecase this could probably be changed [1].

Regards translating this particular SVG, I could boot up translatesvg.wmflabs.org and piggyback

on this demand to get some basic user testing (although I already know it's a bit rubbish at the

moment!!). Since it just exports an SVG anyway, voila -- though preserving attribution would need some

thought.

Best,
Harry

[1] Not sure on the technical specifics. Clearly the easiest would be to have a |lang=multi flag,

but that may not be sustainable long term.