Last modified: 2010-05-15 14:36:10 UTC
There currently is no way to select Alemannic as the user language. How can it be made available? The interface does exist in Alemannic but if a user switches the language or another setting it's impossible to switch it back. This is pretty annoying on the Alemannic wikipedia (http://als.wikipedia.org).Could this be done if this is the right place to ask?
LanguageAls.php does not exist and need to be created.
(In reply to comment #1) > LanguageAls.php does not exist and need to be created. How can it be created? Again, the interface exists, it just can't be re-selected.
I'm fairly sure this issue was fixed in 1.4; it's possible the fix wasn't copied into 1.5 or got broken.
(In reply to comment #3) > I'm fairly sure this issue was fixed in 1.4; it's possible the fix wasn't copied into 1.5 or got broken. No, it never was selectable, ever, ever. I know, because I changed some other preferences months ago and suddenly had an afrikaans interface! Then I couldn't change it back; there even was a warning saying: "don't change the language as long as Alemannic isn't listed yet". Probably the Alemannic administrators just forgot to get it listed.
Created attachment 713 [details] A temp fix (uses English for everything) Added a version of a LanguageAls.php that is essentially empty - all text defaults to English, however, the language appears in the list.
(In reply to comment #5) > Created an attachment (id=713) [edit] > A temp fix (uses English for everything) > > Added a version of a LanguageAls.php that is essentially empty - all text > defaults to English, however, the language appears in the list. Was this supposed to change anything? I don't see any difference: I can see the existing Alemannic interface when I'm logged out, but when I'm logged in I can't select it. -- J. 'mach' wust
Commited the dummy file in HEAD. Should fix the issue. Wikimedia servers updated.
The issue is not fixed. The only thing that's changed is that now you can select the language setting "als - Alemannisch" in the preferences. However, a selection of the setting "als - Alemannisch" does not select the Alemannic user interface. The Alemannic user interface will only appear when I first logg out before I visit als.wikipedia.org . This means that the user interface must still be around somewhere.
You have to change the language in your preferences. Users are created with an interface language that default to the one of the site.
Well now we have two interfaces for Alemannic. One is the temporary one which is in English and called als- Alemannisch; the other is called gem-alsatian - gem-alsatian. That one uses the Alemannic language interface. So it's now possible to re-select the interface, it just has a strange name. If gem-alsatian - gem-alsatian is renamed als-Alemannisch and the temporary English one is deleted, we're fine.
Now something really went wrong. When I had gem-alsatian - gem-alsatian selected everything was in Alemannic. Since today, it's suddenly in German. Apparently the request was made to change als-Alemannisch (LanguageAls.php) to German so that it would be easier to translate (why we still have to translate when we already have the Alemannic interface is beyond me, but...). Someone missunderstood this and changed gem-alsatian (LanguageGem_alsatian.php) to German. So now we don't have any Alemannic interface but instead we have one in English and one in German. So LanguageGem_alsatian.php should be reverted to how it was and whatever is in it should go to LanguageAls.php.
With bug 4793 the language code has been changed to [gsw], because this is a better code instead of [gem-alsatian] (because it is contained in ISO 639-2). But now all namespace names are in English, so we have many red links now; see Main_Page! Please correct this. I think LanguageAls.php was already in use, but I am not sure (has there been a "...gem-alsatian" file?). Thanks in advance, Melancholie
The following should be LanguageGsw.php: 1. http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/wikipedia/phase3/languages/ LanguageGem_alsatian.php 2. http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/wikipedia/phase3/languages/ LanguageGem_alsatian.deps.php Do not ask me what the difference is between those two ;-) BTW: Isn't there a way to only use LanguageAls.php or only LanguageGsw.php (take the one that is easier to do)? For your information: [als] is the web address; [gsw] is the current xml:lang-code.
Ok, replaced the old ones with gsw and should be working correctly now.
Ok, it works fine! But: Hmm, I do not know how long a cached version of an article is kept, but some articles show still red links, no categories and no images (sometimes a bit ugly). After purging those pages everything is shown properly! Could someone clear all the cache of alsWP if it is not too much work, and only if this problem seems to stay some more days. If this problem should disappear in the next hours, we can wait ;-)
