* Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com [Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:51:33 +0100]:
Hoi, How would Commons work for someone who speaks and reads Mazanderani, Nepali or Yoruba and does not speak English ? They are very welcome to use Commons but Commons is hardly usable if you are not able to navigate its data and procedures.
I always wondered, why to have a multilanguage wiki one has to setup a wiki farm with interlinks? Why wiki cannot be multilingual by default? By the way, MediaWiki has the preliminary support of that back in 1.10 when I've started to use it for local projects. It's a global variable $wgLanguageCode and the corresponding request parameter uselang=langcode. Why not to use the correct source language code when "transferring" a user from small local wiki to commons, so the links to commons will have an appropriate uselang=code parameter. Dmitriy