Screenshot of current git master as deployed on commons.wikimedia.org (1.20wmf5)
Recently the rendering of the interlanguage list was changed from:
- Sentence case rendering of the language name in the origin language (e.g. in an English interface French would be rendered as "Francais").
To:
- loose word rendering of the language name in the origin language (e.g. in French the language name is usually written lowercase in a sentence, so it is rendered as "francais" (lower case) regardless of context/user interface language).
I think the ideal solution is to render it like this:
- Sentence case rendering of the language name in the user interface language (e.g. French would be rendered as "French" for an English user, regardless of the content language, and Dutch as "Dutch". And for a Dutch user it would read "Frans" and "Nederland". And for a French user interface it would read "francais" and "néerlandais" (lower case).
But since right now we don't all language names in all language, I recommend we revert this recent change to the status quo until we can go all the way. Because right now the interlanguage list looks (imho) very broken to the average user (e.g. written by someone not caring about grammer, inconsistent capitalization). See attachment.
See also:
- bug 36819
Version: 1.20.x
Severity: enhancement
Attached: