On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Seb35 <seb35wikipe...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Adding Special:MyLanguage on the foundationwiki will not achieve the
> feature you want: this special page redirects to the user language (of the
> user preferences), and nobody in the public has an account on this wiki, so
> everyone will be redirected to the English page (try on Meta with a private
> tab after setting the browser default language to 'de' or whatever).
>

I almost pointed out the same until I read Matthew’s mail, where he writes

I don't know why Kaldari wants it. But Fundraising can use it for our thank
> you page. We would like to give a redirect like
> wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Thank_You/fi and have it
> go
> to the Finnish page, or English if that doesn't exist.
>

And so I learned about another feature of Special:MyLanguage. However,
you’re right that detecting the user’s language from some other source than
just (local!) user preferences might be even better.

-- [[cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec]]
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