That's extremely the wrong way of discussion. The initial question was, as I suppos, if there could be created rewrite rule to change thrid domain name with something like '?uselang=$1'. Such a radical "improvement" is unnecessary.
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Maciej Jaros <[email protected]> wrote: > DaB. (2010-12-29 22:21): >> Hello, >> At Wednesday 29 December 2010 22:10:53 DaB. wrote: >>> the problem is, that one wants to give consistent links to others. When >>> you're not able to give a link, which points to the same page (in the >>> same language), thats not very user friendly I think. Of course the >>> header field should be used when toolserver.org or www.toolserver.org is >>> the host and may redirect to en.toolserver.org or de.toolserver.org >>> regarding to the language preferences. >> yes, that's the problem, but the way arround. If I give a link like >> http://en.toolserver.org/~auser/atool.php to another user the GUI will be in >> english – no matter if the user speaks english, his accept-header is english >> or anything. >> Also the way to specify the language in a third-level-domain is VERY uncommon >> (wikipedia does it and a few hardware-sellers like IBM or dell) – the users >> are accustomed to change the first-level-domain (google.de for german google, >> google.fr for french google, google.it for italian etc. pp.). > > It's also not standard for Wikipedia. If I go to de.wikipedia.org I see > interface in language I've chosen in preferences (which happens to be > Polish). The difference is not the interface (which to my understanding > we are talking about), the difference is the active database. You would > have to add the ability to change the database and the interface > language anyway. > > Anyway how would it be possible to make toolserver users to use one > common method for i10n? There is no suggested framework there aren't > even any suggested templates for a page (by which I mean a common layout). > > Regards, > Nux. > > > _______________________________________________ > Toolserver-l mailing list ([email protected]) > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l > Posting guidelines for this list: > https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette -- З павагай, Павел Селіцкас/Paul Selitskas Wizardist @ Wikimedia projects [email protected], +375257408304 Skype: p.selitskas _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list ([email protected]) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guidelines for this list: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette
