Last modified: 2012-10-11 04:50:41 UTC
I have downloaded a page from Czech Wikipedia to PDF. The description of items, such as pictures used or license was in Czech. But as the page was in English (even on cs.wp), I swiched to English language in user preferences. Suprisingly BookCreator rendered page again with items described in Czech. I thing this is not a good behaviour of an extension. I think it should choose a language per user preferences rather than project languages. Imagine the situation, when you would like to make a PDF on Czech Wikipedia and distribute it. Rather than having there a section called "Image sources, authors and licences" you have there "Zdroje obrázků, licence a přispěvatelé". How many English speaking people will understand this?
Sorry, this is not going to happen.
It might be a good idea to suggest why.
(In reply to comment #1) > Sorry, this is not going to happen. Even not on switch?
(In reply to comment #2) > It might be a good idea to suggest why. I fail to see a reason why the user's language setting should have an effect on the pdf output. The language setting does change the UI presented to the user. It does not change the content of articles or any internal language setting when rendering articles (think 'formatnum'). For most articles from any wikipedia project choosing the user's language setting instead of the projects setting results in mixed language documents if the user's setting differs. That's what I call surprising.
So how to get English items describtion for English text from Czech Wikipedia? And what about projects like Meta or Outreach, where might be text in different languages?
