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Bug 20798 - Multilingual user page rewrite rules or redirections
Multilingual user page rewrite rules or redirections
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 10342
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Internationalization (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Lowest minor (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/
: accessibility
Depends on: 41845
Blocks:
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Reported: 2009-09-24 21:39 UTC by JackPotte
Modified: 2014-05-03 14:14 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Description JackPotte 2009-09-24 21:39:59 UTC 
Hello,
Media wiki should propose a multilingual user page rewrite rules or redirections to display more easily ones profile.
For example, in fr.w, if I enter my profile name in English in the URL bar, it will be automatically converted in French, eg:

"http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:JackPotte" is rewritten in:
"http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:JackPotte".

Would it be possible to develop this function on mediawiki (or at least on Commons) please?
Thank you.
Comment 1 Roan Kattouw 2009-09-24 22:42:18 UTC 
Basically, this bug is asking for localized namespace aliases in the user language rather than the content language.

There are countless issues and obstacles in implementing this; I strongly suggest WONTFIX.
Comment 2 Chad H. 2009-09-24 23:16:38 UTC 
1) User: works on all language wikis, it's the canonical name. Same as Category, Template, etc.
2) Loading different localizations for the namespaces so they can all be (potentially) resolved sounds like way too much overhead for a _very_ marginal benefit. Not to mention not easily feasible within MW right now, per comment #1.

WONTFIX.
Comment 3 Nemo 2012-11-07 12:31:02 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 10342 ***
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