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1. I had a question- why is using page_props a bad idea? Will it break a lot of things? --User:Kunalgrover05 (talk)

I understood it as this based on discussion with Brian Wolff. Page_props depends on the page to be existent first. It is better to create a field in the page table as it is a property of the page itself Kunalgrover05 (talk) 11:34, 22 May 2014 (UTC)Reply

User interface

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I suggest to avoid having to deal with any user interface consideration at first. It's fine, for instance, to create a separate special page Special:PageLanguage which does only that and is not linked from anywhere (except Special:SpecialPages of course). Further integration and refinement of UI can come later. --Nemo 15:32, 22 May 2014 (UTC)Reply

Suggestions from Nikerabbit

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Discussion with Brian Wolff

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  • In order to not require to update all the databases, don't need to set the page language in database(keep it null) until it is different from the default wiki language.
  • Have a SpecialPage until the interface is finalized.
  • Using a hook for extensions to override the DB choice Kunalgrover05 (talk) 05:39, 26 May 2014 (UTC)Reply

Review by Anomie

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  • Need to take care of the ContentHandler:getPageLanguage() method as well.
  • Need to have a way to get page language for MW namespace.
  • Extensions might be setting the PageLanguage using the hook.

Suggestion from SPQRobin

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  • Have the Title->getPageLanguage() as a central function that should call ContentHandler, the DB and the hook and return the correct language.

Front end suggestions from Liangent

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Using ?action=info to set the page language.

Suggestion from Mark Traceur

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Need to add logging for Page Language

Suggestions from Siebrand

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  • Need to have performance engineering approval
  • This code should not break when the schema update is not yet applied. Need to find a fix for that.

Is Special:PageLanguage fully working with extension translate (MW 1.24.2, MLEB 2015.04)?

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Just to announce see Extension_talk:Translate#language_choice_48740 --Andreas P. 22:08, 22 May 2015 (UTC)Reply