That's true, I had envisaged the one (rather bulky) HTML page containing all the different languages' error messages, and people could switch the language of the error message by clicking the desired language's name. I didn't think we'd be able to get different error pages for the different language wikis, since every single Wikimedia site gets served the same error message at the moment. But if it's technically possible to do this then it would be much better.
We could do a combination of both: have the host language show up as the central/main language on the error page, but also have the top 5/10/... languages hidden in the HTML so the user can switch to that language error message if necessary. Or just English, if people feel that's an adequate secondary error message for non-English language wikis.
~Mark Ryan
On 6/9/05, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
Also, I (and Mark) had pictured it differently (or so I presume - we may have the same name but that doesn't mean I can speak for Mark) - one page for everybody rather than multiple pages being based on accept languages.
Host language is a better idea, I think, and we really should look into it because many peoples' computers are set with, say, English as the accept language but would prefer to see the message in, say, Chinese.
Mark