Last modified: 2011-03-13 18:05:05 UTC
Hallo! background: Last week [[MediaWiki:Sitenotice]] was changed to: '''Notice:''' Uploads are disabled and images may not display for a few hours today while we make [[meta:November 2005 image server|{{SITENAME}}]] faster. This message did *not* display properly at RTL wiki's without a "local" sitenotice. *Testcases will follow imediatelly.* feature request: {{CONTENTDIR}} should return 'ltr' for LTR type wiki's and 'rtl for RTL type wiki's. This would allow to generate proper sitenotices (or MediaWiki:Farmnotice see [[meta:Site_notice#MediaWiki:Farmnotice]]) which would display correctly regardless of the LTR / RTL property of the wiki. best regards reinhardt [[user:gangleri]]
http://yi.wiktionary.org/wiki/project:Gangleri/tests/bugzilla/04126 provides some variations from http://yi.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Sitenotice&action=history The proper message would be: <span dir="ltr" >'''Notice:''' Uploads are disabled and images may not display for a few hours today while we make<span dir="ltr" > <span dir="{{CONTENTDIR}}" >[[meta:November 2005 image server|{{SITENAME}}]]</span> </span>faster.</span> or this message embeded in <center> ... </center> The embeding <span dir="ltr" > <span dir="{{CONTENTDIR}}" >[[meta:November 2005 image server|{{SITENAME}}]]</span> </span> should display all SITENAMES correctly with contain characters which are rendered context dependend according to the browsers BiDi algoritm. Unfortunatelly Mozilla Firefox and Netscape can *not* render this correctly in their actual version.
*note* The counterpart of {{CONTENTDIR}} would be somthing as {{UIFDIR}} which should return 'ltr' / 'rtl' according to the LTR / RTL property of the selected user interface. If ?uselang=xx / &uselang=xx is used it should probably return the value of the LTR / RTL property of xx. The question is how this information should be retrieved. It is not available in Names.php at this moment but (probably) available trough function isRTL() as in http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/wikipedia/phase3/languages/LanguageYi.php Should the "default" value of function isRTL() be included in Names.php? This would provide a better overview.
*note* {{UIFDIR}} is not the same as {{USERIFCODE}} requested in Bug 2085: request for a variable USERIFCODE (user interface language code)
This would be useless since having it in the sitenotice as <span dir={{CONTENTDIR}}> would generate <span dir=rtl> on RTL wikis when someone adds an English sitenotice (which is LTR), I've added a comment in CommonSettings.php on the cluster reminding admins to add wrap it in <span dir=ltr></span> which should take care of it. Marking this as INVALID.
fixed url to [[wiktionary:yi:project:bugzilla/04126]] There I made different test cases for RTL {{SITENAME}} as װיקיװערטערבוך (פּרוּװ) which should be rendered "visualy" in an RTL environment as (װיקיװערטערבוך (פּרוּװ Without {{CONTENTDIR}} MediaWiki:Sitenotice *might be broken / not rendered correctly at RTL wiki's. I am still investigating how different browsers behave for the provided testcases. What I would like to achieve is proper rendering as shown in [[wiktionary:yi:image:Bugzilla_04126_001.jpg]] regards reinhardt [[user:gangleri]]
(In reply to comment #4) > This would be useless since having it in the sitenotice as <span > dir={{CONTENTDIR}}> would generate <span dir=rtl> on RTL wikis when someone adds > an English sitenotice (which is LTR), I've added a comment in CommonSettings.php > on the cluster reminding admins to add wrap it in <span dir=ltr></span> which > should take care of it. > > Marking this as INVALID. made [[wiktionary:yi:project:bugzilla/04126#bugzilla:04126.23c4]] to ilustrate that there is still a problem REOPENed the bug
This bug is invalid. The problem is actually that the message WAS displayed according to content directionality! The proper solution is (as said upper) to enclose a sitenotice message in English with a proper dir=ltr if it is to be shown on other (specially RTL) wikis. PS: <span dir=ltr> will set the directionality for the word ordering, but not for the paragraph justification; for that use <div dir=ltr> instead.
Semantic CSS classes could be used instead.
