Last modified: 2013-04-22 12:36:59 UTC
For a reason unknown to me, I'm getting French as the language for the central notice on enwiki and mediawiki.org. I probably had French as my language at one point or another, so this isn't *totally* off base, but my language preference on mediawiki.org is currently English, so I'm not sure why it's giving me French. Clearly this is bad--talking to someone in anything but their native language can't be a good idea. I'd love to help bug-hunt if needed.
Update, I've tried switching to French and back, but no change. Also, adding ?uselang=en to the URI doesn't change things, so somebody isn't using the interface language on the backend.
Corollary: CiviCRM doesn't have any way to switch languages, so once this happens, I'm stuck with French. Since I know enough French to fumble my way through an interface that I wrote, but not nearly enough to understand instructions for credit card transactions, this means that I'm unable to donate. So we should maybe have the Universal Language Selector (or something) running on our CiviCRM instance, too.
(In reply to comment #2) I'm not sure what you mean about civi. Donors don't hit civicrm at all in the donation-making process. It goes CN Banner -> Donate wiki -> payments. All mediawiki. Civi only sends out Thank You emails at this point.
(In reply to comment #1) > Update, I've tried switching to French and back, but no change. Also, adding > ?uselang=en to the URI doesn't change things, so somebody isn't using the > interface language on the backend. Are you just seeing this for the CN UI? IE: all the rest of MW is in English? If you click on the allocations tab is it still in french? (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:BannerAllocation)
Also; I presume you're logged in whilst this is happening?
... actually; are you seeing this just for banners? Because right now WMFR is running a banner that has hardcoded French language text in it. If that's the case -- you're probably in a location that's geolocating to France or a French territory. Confirm by going to http://bits.wikimedia.org/geoiplookup
OK, sorry, I saw "civicrm" in a URL somewhere and assumed it was telling the truth :) whatever interface we get when we click on "donate" or "support" or whatever it's supposed to be in English. Sadly I'm at the office now, and donation pleas seem to be disabled for our IP. mwalker, http://bits.wikimedia.org/geoiplookup gives me the following JSON: Geo = {"city":"San Francisco","country":"US","lat":"37.748402","lon":"-122.415604","IP":"173.228.85.200","netmask":"24"} (I of course ran it from the original IP that I was using) And yes, I'm logged in, and I'm not sure about the allocations tab, because I see it in English now, but I also don't see the donation plea. The rest of MW is all in English, though.
FYI, this seems to be fixed on enwiki but not on mw.org.
So, here's the fun part, there are currently no banners targeted at any project other than wikipedia. Can you take a screenshot of what you see?
mtraceur: Any chance to provide a screenshot?
(In reply to comment #9) > So, here's the fun part, there are currently no banners targeted at any > project other than wikipedia. Is there a schedule (when could this be retested)?
(In reply to comment #11) > Is there a schedule (when could this be retested)? Not really -- we didn't hear any complaints about this during the international fundraiser that we just finished (but that could also be people not communicating it back up to us.) I would vote to close this as resolved - works for me.
(In reply to comment #12 by Matt Walker) > I would vote to close this as resolved - works for me. No other feedback, hence doing so.
