Forum:Japanese only

I'm based in Japan and using a Japanese computer, so when I visit the Wikia home page I am presented with Japanese. This is fine, but my kanji-reading is not too hot so I'd like to view the page in English, but when I click on "English", I'm just presented with the Japanese page again. Can somebody fix this please? Bobo12345 02:37, 6 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Does it also happen when you have javascript disabled? Does it change the URL? --Splarka (talk) 04:16, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

I disabled JavaScript and it still behaves the same way. The URL doesn't change. It's always http://www.wikia.com/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%82%AD%E3%82%A2. Bobo12345 04:24, 6 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Ahh, hmm, english should take you to Wikia (www.wikia.com/wiki/Wikia), does it not? --Splarka (talk) 04:45, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

When I hover my mouse over the link, it does indeed point to www.wikia.com/wiki/Wikia but when I click it instantaneously goes to the Japanese page. Bobo12345 05:31, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

This is a fairly recent change by the way. I'm sure this wasn't happening the other day. Bobo12345 05:33, 6 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Hmm, this is probably on purpose then. What 'header' information do you get when you try Web sniffer? What happens when you input  for a URL in the web sniffer and submit it? --Splarka (talk) 05:49, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

I get the following:

HTTP Response Header Name Value Delim HTTP Status Code: HTTP/1.0 200 OK Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 09:22:03 GMT CRLF Server: Apache CRLF X-Powered-By: PHP/5.1.4 CRLF Content-Language: en CRLF Vary: Accept-Encoding,Cookie CRLF Cache-Control: private, s-maxage=0, max-age=0, must-revalidate CRLF Last-Modified: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 06:14:28 GMT CRLF Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 CRLF Age: 3463 CRLF X-Cache: HIT from www.wikia.com CRLF X-Cache-Lookup: HIT from www.wikia.com:80 CRLF Connection: close CRLF

Bobo12345 06:47, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Interestingly, I just tried it out on my own home computer running English-language Windows XP (this computer is Japanese-language Win XP) and it worked fine - I could switch between Japanese and English versions of the site no problem... Bobo12345 06:49, 6 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Well, okay, same is happening to some polish users. Seems to be something some dev somewhere is trying out. Will point them here. --Splarka (talk) 07:41, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks Splarka. Bobo12345 07:50, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

A similar thing is happening to me. My interface is set to Swedish, and MediaWiki:Mainpage/sv is set to 'Huvudsida', so when I enter wikia.com I'm redirected to Huvudsida instead of Wikia. – Smiddle 10:41, 6 April 2007 (UTC)


 * On the Forum: Watercooler, Angela has just announced this as a new feature. You should go to Help:Home page redirection for updates or post a note on the Watercooler formun asking this same question. Tjoneslo 17:48, 6 April 2007 (UTC)