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In "[Semediawiki-user] problem foaf import in Es-MW" e-mail, user David reports that MediaWiki:Smw_import_foaf doesn't work when used on a Spanish wiki, e.g. in the page Atributo:Nombre.

The error I currently see is 'smw_wrong_importtype'.  What I think is happening is SMW_Factbox.php lines 147-156 only test the 
namespace from the element's line in MediaWiki:Smw_import_Xxxx page against the translated namespace names.  So a Spanish site won't work with 
  name|Type:String
because "Type" does not match the translated wgContLang->getNsText(SMW_NS_TYPE).

If I'm right, the workaround is to use translated names in the MediaWiki:Smw_import_Xxxx page, e.g. 
  name|Tipos de datos:String

The fix is to change those lines in SMW_Factbox.php to work with namespace IDs, something like:
  $elem_ns_index = wgContLang->getNsIndex($namespace)
  switch ($elem_ns_index) {
    case SMW_NS_TYPE:
      $elemtype = ...
    case SMW_NS_PROPERTY
      ...
    etc.

This should be faster code, too ;-)