Hi!
On 10/6/07, Yuval Y yuval.y.il@gmail.com wrote:
What about my suggestion - if you haven't read my previous letter...
What I suggest, is that in the "Log in / create an account" section would be a drop down menu for "native language" or something like that (maybe with the help of uselang) - so after the user creates an account, a script would create a babel box in the user's page (something like {{user $1}} ) or he would get a welcome message in the user talk page ( {{subst:welcome/$1}} ) - or maybe both? That way the user would get a welcome message that could guide him in the Commons, and it would be easier to contact with him.
Yuval
Please also note that not all templates are translated on all languages (actually translations wary by template). So we need intelligent fallback to default template before substitution. For example, MediaWiki:UserMessages.js can't do this.
Eugene.