Last modified: 2010-12-30 19:50:48 UTC
Nowadays, Meta and Commons are defaultly in English for user who is not logged in, and for a logged-in user who has not specified a language in the preferences. The sites ignore the language setting of the browser. Nevertheless, that setting reflects the user's preferences, besides forcing users to register for changing the language is very annoying and senseless.
Language settings of the browser are often incorrect. It can sometimes be confusing to the user if they are in use, as most users don't know how to change the language settings. However, it would be nice if at the very least ?uselang= parameters were persitent (I think thats another bug)
Maybe the browser language settings are sometimes incorrect, nevertheless the present default setting is incorrect almost always, displaying everything in English to everybody. Most users also don't know how to change the language settings in Meta or Commons (it is much easier to get to know own browser once than particular settings of every web visited). I suppose the browser setting can be set defaultly to English (often incorrect), or to the system or browser localisation language (probably nobody uses them in an unintelligible version). All the possibilities are better than default English always. Persistent "?uselang=" would be also useful.
Ah, theres the dupe (I thought i remembered seeing this before) *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 3665 ***
