On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 18:43:29 -0700, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
Nope, you can choose an interface language now.
Unfortunately for many Wikipedias, this uses the LanguageXX.php file and NOT whatever might be in the mediawiki namespace on that Wikipedia
- thus you can't view the interface in Kannada, or Navajo, or etc...
For obvious reasons, it would be a bit of a nightmare if every wiki could include a seperate customised version of its interface in every language; and the different wikipedias will customise things in ways dependent on their *community*, not just the language.
Presumably (I hope I'm not reopening a can of worms here) the languages you mention can become available to whoever wants them as soon as somebody creates an appropriate LanguageXX.php, so it's not so much a problem of how the interface selection works, as the status of those translations.