When the UI language is not the same as the page language, the "reply", "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" links are translated, but no lang/dir attributes are added to the text.
e.g. If you go to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Main_Page?uselang=de, the "reply" link will be translated to "Beantworten". If you also add a:lang(en) { background-color: pink } using the browser's developer tools, it will get a pink background, because the browser thinks the language is English.
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | BUG REPORT | None | T340265 Language/direction attributes missing from the reply/subscribe/unsubscribe links | ||
| Open | Feature | None | T32238 Create method to get directionality of message including the fallback tree |
This issue is not unique to DiscussionTools, generally no mixed-language content produced by MediaWiki or extensions has proper language/directionality markup.
I'm aware it's not unique to DiscussionTools (I also made T340266 at the same time), but I made this ticket specifically for the links created by DiscussionTools because it's a separate extension.
I don't think T32238 should be a subtask of this, that seems like a separate and much harder thing to fix. The problem I'm trying to report here is that these links are part of the UI, but are not being treated as part of the UI. Things which are part of the UI should have lang/dir attributes based on the UI language, not the content language.
Without being able to get the actually used language, it’s impossible to correctly mark up anything, whether in the content area or in the page chrome. Do you want https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Main_Page?uselang=dv to get lang="dv" dir="rtl"? The button texts are in English, not in Divehi.