To devs:
You just need to add element like "#mw-echo-overlay-moreinfo-link" but with a "transform:scaleX(-1);" [1] to the ext.echo.overlay.css
and call that element instead the ltr one in ext.echo.overlay.js when .sitedir-rtl is true [2]

[1]: http://nicolasgallagher.com/css-background-image-hacks/
[2]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Interface/IDs_and_classes

Best

Prioritization and scheduling of this bug is tracked on Mingle card https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/flow/cards/252

bsitu wrote:

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 54252 ***

Change 89249 had a related patch set uploaded by Bsitu:
Notification overlay is partially hidden in RTL language

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/89249

bsitu wrote:

Oops, the patch referenced the wrong bug

This is not needed for all languages.

It is definitely not needed for Hebrew and Yiddish.

It is *probably* needed for all languages written in the Arabic script.

I'm not sure about Divehi (dv) and Aramaic (arc).

nzmoihue wrote:

Seems dvwiki is also using "؟" http://dv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DE%88%DE%A8%DE%86%DE%A8%DE%95%DE%A9%DE%91%DE%A8:%DE%A2%DE%A7%DE%82%DE%B0%DE%89%DE%AA_%DE%80%DE%AE%DE%85%DE%AA%DE%87%DE%A6%DE%81%DE%A8 (find "؟" on that bug using Ctrl+F)

I guess something like https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-core/blob/9ea365dcb2f1390e117767e0ead4a5655ad4631d/skins/common/shared.css#L240 is needed for reversed question mark

VisualEditor seems to deal with this issue with the help button (also presented as ?)

It might help checking what lists they have to when to flip the question mark and when not to, and use that same strategy in this case.