[WikiEN-l] Forced preview for IPs

[Steve Bennett]

On 8/19/07, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On  0, Adrian <aldebaer at googlemail.com> scr
> Eventually I realize I'd found one of the WPs which had turned forced preview on. Cursing their choice, I hunt around and eventually commit my edit.

In addition to it being an argument for single user login, it's really
an argument for MediaWiki to detect what your local language is and
show its interface in that language by default. It really makes no
sense for the Mongolian Wikipedia to shows its interface in Mongolian
when your browser is screaming "US English! Any English! Spanish!" at
it. It probably breaks several W3C standards this way.

(Out of curiosity: why does it do this? Has this ever been discussed?)

Steve