Help talk:Foreign languages

About Special:PageLanguage

This page sets:

• page language
• writing direction, for example Hebrew is written right to left (English is left to right)
• minor grammar changes, eg on MEpedia:Contents
• date and time localization settings

~Njt (talk) 20:35, October 8, 2021 (UTC)

Questions -- notjusttired (talk) 12:22, August 14, 2019 (EDT)

What privileges are needed for Special:PageLanguage? Does it rely on an extension not yet installed? Looks like a broken link to me. notjusttired (talk) 12:22, August 14, 2019 (EDT)

A LocalSettings.php change is needed for Special:PageLanguage to show up as a blue link:

// Allow users to change the content language of a page
$wgPageLanguageUseDB = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['pagelang'] = true;

Pyrrhus (talk) 15:33, August 14, 2019 (EDT)

This change was made this week. Admin rights are also needed although were limited to sysops mw:Manual:Language and mw:Special:PageLanguage ~Njt (talk) 20:35, October 8, 2021 (UTC)

Popular pages

Our popular pages link goes to Special:Beliebteste_Seiten - we could rename this to English or use an alternative name notjusttired (talk) 12:22, August 14, 2019 (EDT)

I don't think there's any way to rename a Special page, but we can always create redirects. I think the person who developed this special page was german (probably Duesentrieb), so this Special page just happens to have a German name...

Pyrrhus (talk) 15:33, August 14, 2019 (EDT)