Last modified: 2014-11-17 09:44:54 UTC
Dear administrator: This URL is an example, wikipedia homepage in traditional chinese. http://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/Wikipedia:%E9%A6%96%E9%A1%B5 when I click any link, the language will be changed into simple chinese automatically. For example, I click the "首頁"(homepage), the URL is changed into http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%E9%A6%96%E9%A1%B5 , and the system changes the language into simple chinese. I don't know what happens in system and URL, but I observe the change of the URL: http://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/xxxxxxxxx will change into http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/xxxxxxxxx Thanks for your watching.
Logged in users are able to configure their preference of language variant. Once configured and logged in, all links remains as the default no-variant-specified url but the content displayed is of the language variant. Using zh-tw as example. A logged in user with preference set to zh-tw will see all /wiki/xxxxxxx pages as if /zh-tw/xxxxxxx is requested. But all links still points to /wiki/xxxxxxx 1. When not logged in, users need to switch language variant on every page. 2. Logging in is not always possible, such as using public computers. 3. Users seeing different content/variant on the same url. Consider a user sending a url to another Also found a recent conversation on this topic: www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/281923
I'm considering storing user preference automatically on variant switch. Maybe this can be a solution for this bug? See also: https://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=26519379#.E8.AF.AD.E8.A8.80.EF.BC.88.E7.B9.81.E7.AE.80.2F.E5.9C.B0.E5.8C.BA.E8.AF.8D.3Dvariant.EF.BC.89.E8.BD.AC.E6.8D.A2.E5.99.A8.E5.81.8F.E5.A5.BD.E8.AE.BE.E5.AE.9A.E7.9A.84.E8.AE.BE.E8.AE.A1.E4.BF.AE.E6.94.B9