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by Bram Schoenmakers on Thursday 23/Jun/2005, @16:20

I think it would be better if it automatically redirected you to the local Wikipedia, if available, else it should fall back to the English WP.

(P.S. It would be cool to integrate KWorldClock with WP, just click on a country/city/area et voila...)

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Re: Local Wikipedias
by Torsten Rahn on Thursday 23/Jun/2005, @17:04

Actually it should behave just like specified in your KDE settings:
If KDE specifies a fallback language in the Regional/Language settings then of course it should be shown (as far as it is available in your online/offline ressources). So if you have specified french as your primary language in KDE and you chose german and english as a second and third then it should also behave similar with respect to wikipedia ressources of course.

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Re: Local Wikipedias
by Milan Svoboda on Friday 24/Jun/2005, @07:09

Wiki language setting should not be tight with Regional/Language setting of the entire KDE. Wiki would need a separate setting.

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Re: Local Wikipedias
by Torsten Rahn on Saturday 25/Jun/2005, @08:30

Sorry but this is unnecessary featurecreep and nonsense.

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Re: Local Wikipedias
by cm on Saturday 25/Jun/2005, @10:17

Is there a way to add languages to this dialog in the controle centre without installing complete i18n packs?

For example, I'd understand a french wikipedia entry (and would like to read some in french) but I wouldn't ever use KDE in french or read some application's docs in french. So normally no reason to install kde-i18n-fr. But IIUC I would not be able to add french to the regional settings language list then, would I?

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Re: Local Wikipedias
by cm on Saturday 25/Jun/2005, @10:24

Another thing that's tied to that list: Content negotiation for the WWW. Sometimes (if the quality of the german translation of a site is just too bad) I would like to change the precedence of the languages and put english in the first place but AFAIK that would require me to switch the language of the complete desktop...

Is there a hidden setting to tweak this? Will the Wikipedia interface have one?

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Re: Local Wikipedias
by Ian Monroe on Friday 24/Jun/2005, @09:28

This is where an API would come in very handy. Currently its difficult to know what languages are a given topic is in without first choosing a language and downloading its whole page.

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