Then there no such discussion should take place. Toolserver is a host
of more or less multi-wikipedia tools, differentiating domain names
for used databases is awkward and weird.

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 3:19 AM, Maciej Jaros <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
>>>
>>>
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