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

[Bryan Tong Minh]

On 10/6/07, Florian Straub <flominator at gmx.net> wrote:
> : "Gregory Maxwell" <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote on Thursday, October 04, 2007
> 3:28 PM:
>
> > Why don't we just make the user's language preference setting public data?
>
> What about {{notify me}}? The users are advised to put it on their user page
> after registration.
>
Yes. advised. That means that we cannot depend on it. It has been used
less than 500 times. If we can decide on whether or not user language
is private, I will implement a function to query the language in the
API.

Bryan