Forum:Monaco sidebar and language in preferences (bug?)

The lists of links given on the new parser topic have led me to make a weird discovery.

The sidebar and toolbox on the Monaco are not the same when i change the language in my preferences.

I used 3 differents wikis to show the behavior; Central, GuildWiki and his french counterpart (fr.guildwars).

First, how it look when english is selected in preferences :

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/3597/11022009204434ho7.jpg http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/6696/11022009204510xv8.jpg http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/9466/11022009204458mt9.jpg

And this is how it looks when french is selected in preferences :

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/7113/11022009204642ju8.jpg http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/7311/11022009204757ec4.jpg http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/6857/11022009204735dm6.jpg

Only Central has a correct sidebar in both languages. On GuildWiki, the sidebar is correct only when we have prefs set to english (that is why i always wondered why they dont seem to care to edit it, removing useless categories). On fr.guildwars, the only correct sidebar is the french one.

How can we fix this ? — TulipVorlax 01:59, 12 February 2009 (UTC)


 * See Help:Customizing_Monaco#Internationalisation. I assume it works the same way with MediaWiki:Monaco-sidebar. I'm going to attempt to fix it for GuildWiki now, please correct me on the talkpages of the /fr pages if I fail (my French is atrocious). -- ◄mendel► 07:46, 12 February 2009 (UTC)


 * OK!
 * Sure i'll help fix it for GuildWiki. All this time.... i was kind of thinking GuildWikian where kind dumbs or something, that is why i was asking on a talk page there that it get change (some months ago). It i that might have seemed dumb if it was already set up.
 * Informations on the help page might have not include this bit when read it after Monaco was put in place.
 * Ok, all is good then and at least this page might serve to ensure other wiki admin will know they have to do this. — TulipVorlax 08:06, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Ok, I changed it on GuildWiki. There is another bug, though: "Editez ce Menu" (edit this menu) does not link to the /fr version, but rather to the english original. That is rather bad and should be changed in the software. -- ◄mendel► 08:17, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Another way to do this
PanSola posted a message on c:guildwars:MediaWiki talk:Monaco-sidebar/fr saying there is a better way to do this.

I dont really know, on fr.guildwars i'm not using customs mediawiki messages to get the text strings (i didn't even know it was doable). I'll see if it work... — TulipVorlax 08:47, 12 February 2009 (UTC)


 * The "better way" was under the assumption that an old issue had been resolved, but it haven't. See c:guildwars:GuildWiki:Wikia_staff_noticeboard for details on the bug that needs to get fixed first. -User:PanSola(talk/history) 09:09, 12 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Yeah, i customize sidebar a lot on wiki i admin so i was so "shocked" when i've tried an unmodified link among the lists of problem pages that is given on the parser change topic. They have uselang=en in the url. I gess this parameter could be usefull to test things like this. — TulipVorlax 09:18, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Central wikia case
On second though, the sidebar french text of Central Wikia is a bit wrong; "Top Content" is not translated and "Communaute" would be a lot better be "Communauté" (with an accent, yes). In that submenu, "Utilisateurs favorisés" is so wrong, change it to "Meilleurs utilisateurs" or "Principaux utilisateurs", and "Portail de communauté" has to be changed to "Portail communautaire". — TulipVorlax 09:02, 12 February 2009 (UTC)