Berto wrote:
Hi again!
(Universal login: we at Commons await it more than anyone else, possibly. ;)) As for English login, not quite. We have managed to internationalise the login as much as possible: see http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Userlogin .
Yes, I've used it myself. The main problem is that most users who are afraid of english will never get to see, because they will simply not click on the *login* link.
I've registered and edited on several Wikipedias where I don't speak the language; I've managed to work everything out based on the the location and URLs of the links.
Anyway, if we can setup a proper instruction page on local bases (that is, on pms) we can bridge this. The same would apply to interliki links. If one can mantain a usable UI on *any* edition he will not fear trying even the most exotic language... and this really is a quick way to locate additional pics to use in a given context.
Maybe the local links to Commons could have "?uselang=" at the end of the URLs?
) that it is now possible to have "Optional language selector for user login/registration forms". So I certainly hope Commons will be the first place to implement that.
I see it on all editions (more precisely: IT, EN, META, COMMONS) even now... so probably we talk about different selectors. My common:user works in pms lang, so do my it:user, en:user, meta:user, etc. What worries me is that a user needs to undergo a first page in a foreign language, in order to do this. If we could just send the user language as a link parameter we could probably solve the problem...
It's doable. See http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Userlogin?uselang=it
- there is no way for a local edition to use commons as an "included"
service (that is, one page as another, inside the edition).
I mean having your upload page instead of mine.
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Aha:
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Especial:Upload
Not sure how, but es: has disabled image uploading.