On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 12:23 AM, Lukas Benedix <bene...@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Okay… > > So uselang is not usable for Liangents proposal. > > An item could have the label only in en and the description only in en-ca... > uselang=en would miss the one and uselang=en-ca the other… his solution > would display en as well as en-ca for both (with the missing language > highlighted in a not yet defined way) > > > I still think that a gadget would be the best for his proposal… users could > easily turn it off and modify it for their own needs.
Maybe this is true for fallback-only requirement, but it's not true when conversion/transliteration comes, as conversion must take place server-side. -Liangent > > Lukas > > > Am So 28.04.2013 18:11, schrieb Matthew Flaschen: > >> On 04/28/2013 11:15 AM, Lukas Benedix wrote: >>> >>> What exactly is uselang=qqx doing? >>> >>> http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q567?uselang=qqx >>> >>> looks like this: >>> >>> >>> http://lbenedix.monoceres.uberspace.de/screenshots/oojp8u26nl_(2013-04-28_17.13.54).png >>> >>> <http://lbenedix.monoceres.uberspace.de/screenshots/oojp8u26nl_%282013-04-28_17.13.54%29.png> >> >> uselang in general lets you temporarily display an interface with a >> different language. You can use it with regular languages (uselang=es, >> uselang=zh, etc.). >> >> However, uselang=qqx is special. It shows the keys (identifiers for a >> message) of the MW messages >> (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:System_messages) used in the page. >> >> Matt Flaschen >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
