https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45941
Tilman Bayer <tba...@wikimedia.org> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Status|UNCONFIRMED |NEW
CC| |tba...@wikimedia.org
Assignee|tba...@wikimedia.org |wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.
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Ever confirmed|0 |1
--- Comment #2 from Tilman Bayer <tba...@wikimedia.org> ---
I have updated the banner in question with the Farsi translation [1]. This
should have resolved the particular issue shown in the attachment, occurring
when viewing fawiki with Farsi as user language, as the reporter appears to
have. Any Meta admin could have done so, as described on the translation page
linked from the banner [2].
As I understand it, the issue was not that the banner displayed in English
(although of course it is preferable to have it available in the local
language), but rather that the English banner displayed in a broken way - "?How
should...", ".(Comment on proposals...", etc.
It's worth noting the English-language version of this banner displays fine on
hewiki, another right-to-left wiki [3], when selecting English as user
language. And on the other hand, for some reason selecting a specific banner
does not seem to work at all to me on either fawiki [4] or arwiki [5]. Same for
other banners, e.g. compare [6] and [7].
This suggests to me that this is a general issue with the display of banners in
*some* RTL wikis, in particular when there is no local translation available
and the CentralNotice fallback logic selects a LTR version to display, as it
was the case here. I'll also note that there is an open bug which may be
related [8].
Also, it is my understanding that Bugzilla is for fixes in the software running
on Wikimedia sites, or their configuration, rather than for requesting content
changes on these wikis (as in this case). In that regard, this bug is better
understood as reporting a general problem. For these reasons, I am hesitant to
claim the fame of having resolved this bug solely based on my wiki edits that
fixed this particular banner. So I am resetting the assignee to default.
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:NoticeTemplate/view?template=FDCpropreview20031&wpUserLanguage=fa
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/CentralNotice2013-1
[3] https://he.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?banner=FDCpropreview20031&uselang=en
(note that you have to be logged in to see this and the other banner examples)
[4] https://fa.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?banner=FDCpropreview20031&uselang=en
[5] https://ar.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?banner=FDCpropreview20031&uselang=en
[6] https://ar.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?banner=IndivdualGrantsA
[7] https://he.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?banner=IndivdualGrantsA
[8] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21778 "BiDi issue in RTL
wikis at site notice with LTR text ending with Unicode characters with neutral
directional"
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