Hoi, The Multilingual MediaWiki will still want you to say in your user interface what language you want. We do indeed want to bring this functionality to MediaWiki. However not every project will want this. On the talkpage of the article I think Jamesday asked if this was in order to bring all Wikipedias into one big project. That too is not what Multilingual MediaWiki intends to do. Multilingual MediaWiki allows for Wikis that need to be language aware. WiktionaryZ is one such; users will want to select the languages they want information in. This can only be done when we know what information is in what language. Other projects also have a need for multiple languages in one project, think Commons for instance. I can also imagine that projects in Wikicities want to have content in multiple languages, they would be helped with this functionality.
At this moment we envision the change of the language of the User Interface to be in the preferences. This may change when we understand better how the UI would work best.
Thanks, GerardM
admin Yellowikis wrote:
You mean something like this? http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Multilingual_MediaWiki
Coming soon (Erik?) to a Wiki near you.
Paul
On 3/1/06, thomas Armstrong tarmstrong@gmail.com wrote:
Hi.
I'd like to allow users to change Wiki interface's language, by clicking a link, instead of modifying their preferences.
I've been browsing the code, and I guess I must change a property of $wgContLang, but I don't find which one.
Any suggestion? Thank you very much.