Last modified: 2014-01-18 07:35:34 UTC
From http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2014-January/129723.html When messages are posted in languages other than the content language of the wiki, please wrap them in a <div> with the lang and dir attributes set correctly, so users' browsers know how to handle them.
Is this a bug in the extension itself? I think it's message senders' responsibility to use proper markups.
For example some senders may use: {{subst:#switch:{{subst:CONTENTLANGUAGE}} |en=some text |he=some other text in Hebrew |#default=<div lang=en dir=ltr>some text ''Please translate me''</div> }} It doesn't make sense to wrap text in <div lang=en dir=ltr></div> when the Hebrew branch is used.
(In reply to comment #1) > Is this a bug in the extension itself? I think it's message senders' > responsibility to use proper markups. Agreed. MassMessage very little knowledge of message text and it could get complex trying to figure out what language a message is written in. For now [[m:MediaWiki:massmessage-summary]] has a note about this. In the future when bug 54839 is fixed, it might make sense to automatically do this if we know a message is going to a wiki in a different language/direction.
(In reply to comment #3) > Agreed. MassMessage very little knowledge of message text and it could get MassMessage has*
