Casey Brown hett schreven:
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 7:02 AM, Dmitriy Sintsov
<questpc(a)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