Last modified: 2013-06-18 15:10:31 UTC
If the user has changed their interface language in Special:Preferences, then all elements affected by this should advertise themselves (by lang="xx", etc.) to be in the selected language. Current behaviour is that the whole page is marked as being in the default language of the wiki, even when the wiki 'knows' it is also returning data in another language.
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Messages can be in (various) fallback languages even if a user did not select a non-standard interface language. Also those deserve proper language tagging.
lang attribute added in various places in r49331 (with some fixes in r49350 and r51448).
Isn't this essentially fixed by the new better directionality code?
(In reply to comment #4) > Isn't this essentially fixed by the new better directionality code? I think that it's done, except for the page title (<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading">).
This should close this issue: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/33163/
merged. not yet deployed
This solution generates the wrong language when the first heading contains a system message in user interface language: http://ar.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/w/index.php?title=%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%81%D8%AD%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A9&action=edit&uselang=en contains <h1 lang="ar" class="firstHeading" id="firstHeading"><span dir="auto">Editing الصفحة الرئيسية</span></h1> http://ar.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%B5:%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B0%D8%A7_%D9%8A%D8%B5%D9%84_%D9%87%D9%86%D8%A7/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%81%D8%AD%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A9?uselang=en contains <h1 lang="en" class="firstHeading" id="firstHeading"><span dir="auto">Pages that link to "الصفحة الرئيسية"</span></h1> In both situations the attribute lang isn't necessary because <html lang="en"> already exists.
I guess we could split it into two titles. UI title vs. Content title bits. Requires a bit more work. I suggest to open a separate ticket on this front.
