On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 4:00 PM, Brian Wolff <bawolff(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 11/10/15, Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
<bjorsch(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Also, if page content can vary based on user
language, what to do about
bug
reports that Special:WhatLinksHere, category
listings, file usage data at
the bottom of file description pages, and so on don't report a
link/template/category/file that only exists on the page when it's viewed
in a non-default language? Yeah, we already have that with {{int:}}
hacks,
but you're talking about making it more of a
feature.
If I remember correctly, we already parse the page once in the user
language, and once in the content language (canonical parser options)
in order to prevent this issue.
We parse in the content language to avoid T16404
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T16404>, which is somewhat the opposite.
My concern here is that if varying page content on user language becomes a
supported thing, people will probably complain that
{{#ifeq:{{USERLANG}}|en|[[Category:Foo]]|[[Category:Bar]]}} (or the
equivalent in Lua) on a site with 'en' as the default won't show the page
when you look at Category:Bar, even though it probably will show
Category:Bar at the bottom of the page in non-English languages.
T16404 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T16404> was about the fact that
doing the equivalent with {{int:}} hacks used to sometimes put the page in
Category:Foo and sometimes in Category:Bar, depending on the language of
whoever last edited (or null-edited) the page.
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Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Senior Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation