Paul Selitskas (2010-12-29 23:25): > 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.
It doesn't matter how it will be used (I mean the subdomain) pl.wikipedia.org means I'm going to Polish Wikipedia articles not that I'm using Polish interface. > 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 > > _______________________________________________ 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
