Last modified: 2013-07-31 07:47:15 UTC
HTML emails for notifications was enabled today on English Wikipedia. The "View Post View Changes" links were in Dutch on the email I received. ("Bericht bekijken Wijzigingen bekijken")
Hi Risker, thanks for reporting this issue. At this time, we cannot reproduce it on our end. Could you please upload a screenshot and a URL to the specific 'View Change' message which caused a Dutch version of the diff to appear? There are no copyright issues with posting the screenshot, as our designs are all CC-BY-SA 3.0. Also, if you are uncomfortable sharing any information in public, you are welcome to email it to me directly at fflorin-at-wikimedia.org. Did you by any chance visit the Dutch Wikipedia recently, or select the Dutch language in any of our language selectors? We want to get to the bottom of this issue, and would like to find out steps that would allow us to reproduce it. Thanks in advance for any tips you can provide to help us solve this issue for you.
(In reply to comment #1) > Hi Risker, thanks for reporting this issue. At this time, we cannot reproduce > it on our end. Could you please upload a screenshot and a URL to the specific > 'View Change' message which caused a Dutch version of the diff to appear? I have a screenshot which I will email to you. > There > are no copyright issues with posting the screenshot, as our designs are all > CC-BY-SA 3.0. Also, if you are uncomfortable sharing any information in > public, > you are welcome to email it to me directly at fflorin-at-wikimedia.org. Please keep in mind that Enwp convention is that emails are copyrighted by the sender and may not be published on enwp without the authorization of the sender. We're very strict about emails being published, for reasons that have nothing to do with this. Did > you > by any chance visit the Dutch Wikipedia recently, or select the Dutch > language > in any of our language selectors? We want to get to the bottom of this issue, > and would like to find out steps that would allow us to reproduce it. Thanks > in > advance for any tips you can provide to help us solve this issue for you. Was on the Dutch Wikipedia once in the past week to read only, have been on at least six other language Wikipedias since then to read. I have never set preferences for anything other than English anywhere on WMF sites or through my email. Please note my further comment that the second message (the one I'll send you a screenshot for) even has the message garbled.
Can you attach the screenshot to this bug? I suspect the notification was generated by a user whose user language is Dutch.
Yeah, we should set the language to the user's selected language
I can confirm that that message was from a user who has his default interface language set to Dutch.
Change 76874 had a related patch set uploaded by Bsitu: (bug 52298) The email should be set in the user's language https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/76874
(In reply to comment #4) > Yeah, we should set the language to the user's selected language Well, it *is* in the user's selected language - the sender's. What you want is to set it to the selected language of the recipient user.
(In reply to comment #7) > (In reply to comment #4) > > Yeah, we should set the language to the user's selected language > > Well, it *is* in the user's selected language - the sender's. What you want > is > to set it to the selected language of the recipient user. Sorry about the confusion, what I meant by user is the recipient
Change 76874 had a related patch set uploaded by Alex Monk: (bug 52298) The email should be set in the user's language https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/76874
Change 76874 merged by jenkins-bot: The email should be sent in the recipient's language https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/76874
Merged.
Thanks, Alex, Benny and kww, much appreciated. Risker, we were already aware of the weird characters issue (e.g.: ' & # 8226 ; '), which is triggered by HTML codes like the '< font >' tag. I have filed this bug #52313, so we can solve that issue as soon as possible. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52313 Both of these bugs have a high priority, and we will do our best to deploy them this week if we can.
