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.