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a magic word for getting the content language's direction is needed [PATCH]
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added the magic word WIKICONTENTDIR and applied it to the message filepath-summary

A magic word for getting the content language's direction is needed. It is useful, for example in Special:FilePath, which says "{{ns:file}}:". If you're using an RTL wiki with uselang=en, the ':' will be displayed at the wrong end of the word, so you need to set its direction explicitly.

According to SPQRobin's suggestion, i added the magic word WIKICONTENTDIR and applied it to that message. It may be useful in other messages, too.

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Lowest.Nov 21 2014, 11:58 PM
• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Internationalization.
• bzimport set Reference to bz30919.
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Amire80 created this task.Sep 15 2011, 10:23 PM
Nikerabbit added a comment.Sep 16 2011, 5:15 AM

My only complaint is that this adds a lot of markup to the messages. We know that translators easily get it wrong and try to keep it in minimum.

• brion added a comment.Sep 16 2011, 5:04 PM

Yeah, this seems like it would just infect a billion messages and be very error-prone. Further, it still won't be correct if that namespace name is actually in Latin characters -- which may easily happen with custom namespaces.

MarkAHershberger added a comment.Sep 16 2011, 5:13 PM

ergh... setting to lowest to reflect Niklas and Brion's comments, but might be WONTFIX

Nikerabbit added a comment.Sep 16 2011, 5:17 PM

The magic word itself can be useful, but not like this.

Amire80 added a comment.Sep 18 2011, 8:00 PM

I agree with Niklas - there's no need for so much markup in the message.

I reopened the problem with Special:FilePath as Bug 30977. Since i don't currently know any other messages where this magic word would be useful, i don't mind having this bug closed as LATER.

Amire80 added a comment.Oct 4 2011, 6:55 AM

Marking LATER.

Aklapper added a comment.Dec 21 2012, 1:19 PM

(In reply to comment #5)

Since i don't currently know any other messages where this magic word
would be useful, i don't mind having this bug closed as LATER.

[Removing RESOLVED LATER as discussed in http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-November/064240.html and setting WONTFIX, as a usecase is missing.]

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