Wiki localization

[Xavier Conde Rueda]

Hi,

2007/6/28, Justin Towson <grfpopl at gmail.com>:
> I've seen various wiki's with automatic localization features as well,
> and thought I'd just throw in a few ideas.
>
> (As a specific example, the Debian main page) Some pages will detect
> locale and automatically select the display language with of course is
> an extremely useful feature.  Some wiki's however check and set this
> on every page, which especially for situations which you would want to
> look through a site in a certain language for reference or whatever,
> this feature is extremely annoying.
>
> In fact I was looking through some sites on my friend's Korean
> computer, which I don't read at all, so I attempted to set the website
> in English, since there is a link to all languages on every page.  I
> quickly found out even setting a page in English,
> navigating through site reverted back to Korean on every click-through.
>
> Maybe not the highest priority feature, and I understand there are
> limitations with wiki code and cookies and stuff, but in terms of
> usability, possibly something to consider.
>

Maybe the wiki could remember the last language a user selected with a
cookie; for instance, if a user loads the english page, but then
navigates to a spanish page, then the next wiki pages could be loaded
in Spanish by default.

-- 
Google talk/Jabber: xavi.conde a gmail.com