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Interface language on multilingual Wikimedia projects should default to browser language preferences
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Author: monniaux

Navigators send a list of acceptable languages (English, French etc.) by decreasing preferences. By default, MediaWiki on commons and other multilingual
sites should default to the first language that it knows in that list.

Francophone users have complained that the commons user interface is in English even though they follow links from fr.

The UniversalLanguageSelector extension can do this, but it is not enabled for anonymous users due to caching issues. See T58464: Allow anonymous users to change interface language on Wikimedia wikis with ULS as interim step towards this.

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Lowest.Nov 21 2014, 8:01 PM
• bzimport added a project: Wikimedia-Language-setup.
• bzimport set Reference to bz1135.
• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).
• bzimport created this task.Dec 19 2004, 1:07 PM
Nikerabbit added a comment.Aug 24 2005, 11:56 PM

Neither the translansatios or the message choosing algorithm is able to provide
pleasent user experience, yet. Not at least for non-major languages.

• brion added a comment.Nov 29 2011, 8:55 PM

I'm going ahead and reopening this.

Something 'in the middle' such as a runtime JS check could switch (or prompt you with the ability to switch) the UI language fairly straightforwardly with today's interface.

A future more JS-heavy interface might be more able to dynamically switch itself transparently.

Matanya added a comment.Jul 30 2012, 12:57 PM

When not just give the user an option in a small prompt per his browser language preferences?

Glaisher subscribed.Dec 20 2014, 9:55 AM
revi subscribed.Jan 25 2015, 10:28 AM
He7d3r mentioned this in T5665: Auto-detect interface language for anonymous users on Wikimedia projects.Jan 25 2015, 12:18 PM
Aklapper added a project: Commons.Mar 10 2015, 4:45 PM
Steinsplitter moved this task from Incoming to Backlog on the Commons board.Mar 11 2015, 12:57 PM
• Purodha subscribed.Jun 19 2015, 3:33 PM
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zhuyifei1999 moved this task from Backlog to MediaWiki Interface and i18n on the Commons board.Nov 15 2015, 2:29 PM
Meno25 unsubscribed.Feb 22 2016, 5:47 PM
Nikerabbit removed parent tasks: T39883: [DO NOT USE] Bug and feature requests related to Wikimedia Commons (tracking), T15097: Deploy ULS/UniversalLanguageSelector to all Wikimedia wikis (tracking).Jul 12 2016, 9:08 AM
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Nikerabbit renamed this task from Language on Commons should default to browser language preferences to Interface language on multilingual Wikimedia projects should default to browser language preferences.Jul 12 2016, 9:13 AM
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Nikerabbit mentioned this in T58464: Allow anonymous users to change interface language on Wikimedia wikis with ULS.Jul 12 2016, 9:17 AM
Nemo_bis closed this task as a duplicate of T5665: Auto-detect interface language for anonymous users on Wikimedia projects.Jul 12 2016, 11:16 AM
Nemo_bis closed this task as a duplicate of T5665: Auto-detect interface language for anonymous users on Wikimedia projects.
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