From http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2014-January/129723.html
When messages are posted in languages other than the content language of the wiki, please wrap them in a <div> with the lang and dir attributes set correctly, so users' browsers know how to handle them.
Version: master
Severity: enhancement
Is this a bug in the extension itself? I think it's message senders' responsibility to use proper markups.
For example some senders may use:
{{subst:#switch:{{subst:CONTENTLANGUAGE}}
| en=some text |
| he=some other text in Hebrew |
| #default=<div lang=en dir=ltr>some text ''Please translate me''</div> |
}}
It doesn't make sense to wrap text in <div lang=en dir=ltr></div> when the Hebrew branch is used.
(In reply to comment #1)
Is this a bug in the extension itself? I think it's message senders'
responsibility to use proper markups.
Agreed. MassMessage very little knowledge of message text and it could get complex trying to figure out what language a message is written in. For now [[m:MediaWiki:massmessage-summary]] has a note about this.
In the future when bug 54839 is fixed, it might make sense to automatically do this if we know a message is going to a wiki in a different language/direction.
(In reply to comment #3)
Agreed. MassMessage very little knowledge of message text and it could get
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