On Sun, 3 Jul 2005, Roman Maurer wrote:
Alfio Puglisi pravi:
I recently noticed that Slovene common image descriptions have also English text, eg.: http://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slika:Evo7glyph.png
Is this a bug or somebody's intention?
It's intentional, see
http://www.archivum.info/wikitech-l@wikimedia.org/2005-07/msg00023.html
Alfio, thank you for this link! But this feature is nonsense, it's language imperialism! :-(
It isn't. It was actually a highly requested feature, because often images are included from commons and until ow one had to click an additional link to know if the image was public domain or GFDL or whatever.
If the description is English-only, it's just because someone wrote it in English and not in Slovenian or some other language. Translations on the commons page are welcome.
Now that I think about it, license templates like {{GFDL}} should have some way of specifying the language, because they always appear in English on the commons wiki and will appear in English as well on local description pages. Kate's code probably takes commons' page HTML code instead of the wikicode (otherwise templates wouldn't work), so it's not easy to change this.
Alfio