[Wikitech-l] enable setting language preference without requiring login

2012-01-11 Thread jidanni
Why can't MediaWiki do like all major sites' software, and allow setting the interface language without requiring the user to establish an account? Observe the bottom of e.g., http://www.facebook.com/ http://www.flickr.com/ http://www.youtube.com/ Each has a language selector that doesn't require

Re: [Wikitech-l] enable setting language preference without requiring login

2012-01-11 Thread John Du Hart
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 7:57 PM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Why can't MediaWiki do like all major sites' software, and allow setting the interface language without requiring the user to establish an account? Observe the bottom of e.g., http://www.facebook.com/ http://www.flickr.com/

Re: [Wikitech-l] enable setting language preference without requiring login

2012-01-11 Thread Chad
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 8:04 PM, John Du Hart compwhi...@gmail.com wrote: Just wondering, is there a reason why you think it's necessary to make a maliinglist post every time you file a bug that complains about MediaWiki missing a feature? If it wasn't for this e-mail, I'd have thought we