fran wrote:

Impossible due to caching. Page content cannot depend on a specific user's settings.

Wiki.Melancholie wrote:

It does work! See:

• http://als.wikiquote.org/wiki/Example?uselang=gsw
• http://als.wikiquote.org/wiki/Example?uselang=de
• http://als.wikiquote.org/wiki/Example?uselang=en

Wiki.Melancholie wrote:

Another argument is that there is a JavaScript variable (var wgUserLanguage = "...";) being the very same topic (not cached as well), but only working for JavaScript, unfortunately.

herd wrote:

(In reply to comment #1)

Impossible due to caching. Page content cannot depend on a specific user's
settings.

The main problem with this one, is it breaks referential integrity, like link tables.

Consider:

{{#switch:{{USERLANG}}|en=[[Foo]]|fr=[[Feu]]|de=[[Fü]]}}

The link that will actually be registered (like for Special:Whatlinkshere) will depend on the language setting of the last user to edit or purge the page.

Setting to depend on bug 14404 since that is where this problem will be resolved, but it is more of a "this bug depends on that bug being WONTFIXed or the tone reversed". I guess.

Wiki.Melancholie wrote:

Like comment #2 shows, this is already possible today (to break referential integrity, without having this magic word).

This magic word would not change anything in concern of referential integrity issues, it would just be easier to use (as available on every wiki by default, you do not have to set up 250+ langs).

It is ok to wait until bug 14404 is fixed (if this is going to be somewhen), but if bug 14404 isn't to be fixed there actually is no reason for not creating this magic word then, as it doesn't make the referential integrity break issue worse in quality (neither in quantity (with the time the (even worse) solution of comment #2 would have to and will be enforced)).

Wiki.Melancholie wrote:

you do not have to set up 250+ langs

... on every wiki.

• This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 2085 ***