Testing the 1.4 CVS version (new installations and update installations) I found
that the Interface Language in User Preferences was set (defaulted) to Africaans.
In my humble opinion fresh MediaWiki installations should come with a
"(uninstalled yet - please choose)" default interface language, proposed: English
OR, better:
the interface language should be set automatically to the installation (content)
language.
Version: 1.4.x
Severity: normal
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | None | T2202 Milestone: MediaWiki 1.4 (tracking) | |||
| Resolved | None | T2588 Interface language: initialise to default content or installation language (= English) or set to "uninitialised" | |||
| Resolved | hashar | T2184 Changing language of UI in user preferences |
The problem seems to have been with migration of preexisting accounts where
there was no 'language' option set in user_preferences; it loaded the wrong
language class as a result and didn't highlight the default language in prefs.