[Commons-l] Automatic messages to users: guessing user preferred language

[Gregory Maxwell]

On 10/4/07, Alexandre NOUVEL <alexandre.nouvel at alnoprods.net> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I've seen that some users run bots that add some message templates to
> user  talk pages, generally in order to warn them about missing tags and
> other similar problems.
>
> The problem is that bots are not able to guess the preferred user
> language :)

Why don't we just make the user's language preference setting public data?