It would be courteous towards the foreign language users (who e.g. want to
create an account for interwiki-interlanguage linking) if the login page allowed
them to select a different interface language.
Current siutation is not really bad:
- You can always do this attaching "uselang=..." to the login URL (yet not
everybody might be aware of it or memorize his or her tongues language code)
- Once you have an account, you can set your preferred interface language in
user prefences (but have to navigate there in the default language, if you do
not know 1.)
- Admins can configure the login page as e.g. in
http://ksh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Userlogin, source at:
http://ksh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Loginend&action=edit (yet
hardly anyone did that at present)
Adding the language selection into MediaWiki software offers some enhancements:
- an always up-to-date language list is presented,
- the language selected during account creation can be automatically saved in
the user preferences,
- unburdens local wiki admins,
- more equal appearance, when interface language has been switched,
- reduced server load, better cacheablity.
Also:
- On the long run, interface language switching can be incorporated as a
navigational element into the standard frame of each page. Useful specifically
for true multilingual wikies, such as
[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WiktionaryZ] et al.
Version: 1.7.x
Severity: enhancement
URL: http://ksh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin