I also prefer not to add magic words in the first place. But if it is added, it shouldn't change the way the other magic words are interpreted; only magic words from the wiki's language should be used.
Or no magic words at all - just use a language picker at the editing page.
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2013/4/25 Brian Wolff bawolff@gmail.com:
On 2013-04-25 9:12 AM, "Amir E. Aharoni" amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
2013/4/25 Brian Wolff bawolff@gmail.com:
On 2013-04-25 7:04 AM, "Erik Moeller" erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 9:08 PM, Brian Wolff bawolff@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Brian,
We already have the page lang support.
What do you mean by that? AFAICT there's no existing designated place in the schema for associating a content language with a specific page.
There's nothing in the schema. But we do (since 1.19) have a notion of "page language" separate from content language. See the
PageContentLanguage
hook and related code. So all that needs to be done is add something to
the
schema to actually store a value.
That, and a way for the user to specify that language. Either through a magic word or through a language selector on the editing page (either ULS or a dropdown). Of course, the wiki language should be the default. Is there anything else to it?
That's a as far as a page language goes; It is also useful to specify the language of chunks of a page. Currently it's done with the HTML lang attribute, either raw or through templates. It should probably be done using the VisualEditor, and I already wrote a general spec for it a while ago:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Internationalization_requirement...
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Im personally opposed to using a magic word for this. Having a magic word that changes how magic words encountered prior to it are interpreted, not to mention changing how it itself is interpreted seems to be just asking for trouble.
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