Maniphest T116475

Replace setlang
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• adrianheine

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	Fomafix
	Oct 24 2015, 2:09 PM

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Lydia_Pintscher

Description

Wikibase uses currently the URL parameter setlang in:

setlang is problematic because

setlang is suggested to deprecate by T111990.
setlang does not work for anonymous user.
signed-in user normally do not want to change their complete user interface language. They just want to see the content in an other language

I suggest the following alternative changes:

Drop the link entirely.
Replace setlang by uselang. This changes the user interface language only for a single click.
Replace the link to an URL by a call of the language change API of ULS. (mw.uls.changeLanguage)
Introduce a new content language which defaults to the user interface language and can set via user options, URL parameter.

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		Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
		Open		None	T111990 Deprecate setlang GET parameter
		Resolved		• adrianheine	T116475 Replace setlang

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Fomafix created this task.Oct 24 2015, 2:09 PM

Fomafix raised the priority of this task from to Medium.

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Fomafix added projects: MediaWiki-extensions-WikibaseView, Wikidata.

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Fomafix added a parent task: T111990: Deprecate setlang GET parameter.Oct 24 2015, 2:10 PM

Fomafix updated the task description. (Show Details)Oct 24 2015, 4:48 PM

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Lydia_Pintscher added subscribers: Lydia_Pintscher, hoo, thiemowmde.Oct 30 2015, 3:55 PM

The parameter setlang has been removed in ab2dd237ba90763e7bbea393c1caa77c852ef619.

thiemowmde added a project: Wikidata-Sprint-2016-04-12.Aug 17 2016, 12:44 PM

thiemowmde moved this task from Proposed to Done on the Wikidata-Sprint-2016-04-12 board.