[Mediawiki-l] Multilingual Magic Words?

[Platonides]

John Thomson wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I manage a private wiki for an organization whose users are both English 
> and French.  They would like to be able to use some of the Date & Time 
> variable Magic Words, having the results displayed in the users' 
> language of choice.  So, using {{CURRENTDAY}} would produce either 
> "Monday" or "Lundi", depending.  I was rather surprised to see that just 
> changing my user's preferences did not force this translation 
> automatically, as it does for the interface and navigation links.
> 
> When my language preferences are set to either "En" or "Fr", using the 
> Magic Word {{LOCALMONTHNAME}} produces "August", invariably. 
> 
> Do I have to create a new extension to handle this kind of 
> functionality, or should this just work and I am suffering from some 
> unknown pilot error?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John

Since they are content, they appear in the wiki content language.
If you want to have it shown in the users language, open
includes/parser/parser.php and at function getVariableValue change
$wgContLang to $wgLang (remember to do a global $wgContLang).
But you will need to disable caching there to avoid an "English" user
viewing the French months after a "French" user visited the page.