Casey Brown hett schreven:
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 7:02 AM, Dmitriy Sintsov questpc@rambler.ru wrote:
Hmm.. it seems that commons already uses uselang parameter. It just should use it persistantly and the parameter should be passed via the links from small wikis.
You can change the language of the Commons interface in your preferences, instead of using the ?uselang= parameter all the time.
Imagine a user who does not speak English (you can simulate that by changing your interface language to a language you don't know). Further imagine the user is not familiar with Mediawiki (you can simulate that by changing your skin to a skin you never used before). I changed my interface to Arabic and used the Chick skin. I was completely lost. No chance to find the right menu to change the language.
As all new users nowadays have SUL accounts, perhaps the default language on Commons for SUL users shouldn't be English, but the language selected at the SUL home wiki (just the default, it should of course still be changeable in the preferences).
For unregistered users registering on Commons there should be a language selection menu. There already is a language selection menu, but it only changes the signup form and doesn't propagate to the preferences. It should propagate to the preferences!
Additionally why do we always present English as default to unregistered users on Commons? Why don't we observe the accept-language HTTP header?
That would be some easy steps to make Commons much more accessible to non-English people.
Marcus Buck