730401 - Turn off automatic language redirection

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Localization, defect)

Description

[Janet Swisher]

https://mdn.uservoice.com/forums/51389-mdn-website-feedback-http-developer-mozilla-org/suggestions/2625419-to-please-turn-off-the-automatic-language-redirect

"its annoying, there is no way to prevent it from doing so,
and setting my browsers language settings to english is a no-go.

although my native language is german, i (as many others) prefer
documentation on software related topics in english."

Comment 1

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

I confirm: it is annoying. I had to change my language settings in the browser to be able to work on it.

Maybe we should revisit it in the Kuma timeframe, but for the moment, we should turn it off.

Comment 2

[Luke Crouch [:groovecoder]]

I can't tell if it's a configurable MindTouch setting. Can you give some example url's and links where this happens?

Comment 3

[ali spivak]

kuma does not do this currently. site UI automatically redirects based on browser preference - but the page itself is in English. 

need feedback from international users. Needs to be part of UX discussion as well. Follow up after 6/1 test day.

Comment 4

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

Confirmed that this does not happen on Kuma. You are only redirected to an article in your language if you leave off the locale altogether, which requires manual work. If you visit an article from another locale, you are not redirected.

https://developer.mozilla.org/fr/docs/HTML/HTML5

Comment 5

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

Yes, it is a pleasure! It is the first time since May 2010 that I'm able to keep my default Accept-Language and be able to navigate in the MDN.

There are here and there a few absolute addresses which doesn't specify the locale (and I get REDIRECTED, or as if the page doesn't exist I got the "Translate banner"), but these are wiki content errors and I fix them when I met then. (Mainly in the "Project:" namespace.

It really is a big plus. In fact, it really make the MDN navigable in other languages.

\o/ \o/ \o/

Comment 6

[skiant.be]

It looks like this bug is back with the MDN Beta. 
I'm signed in, my language is set to English and yet I'm redirected to the French version.

Comment 7

[Les Orchard [:lorchard]]

Sounds like the focus of this bug has changed?  That is, I don't think we use the signed-in profile language to redirect from developer.mozilla.org - we use the browser's configured locale.

Is that where the redirection is happening? From the home page? 

I think originally, this bug was about redirection happening from *any* page *anywhere*

Comment 8

[Les Orchard [:lorchard]]

Just to be clear - exactly where did the redirection to the French version happen? At what URL?

Comment 9

[skiant.be]

The redirect happens indeed on the home page. Other pages on the dev network include the language parameter and thus do not cause a redirection.

The behavior I expected was for the MDN to use the language setting in my profile over the browser language (I prefer to read technical documentation in English over French despite the latter being my native language), but it might be done otherwise by design and my comment might be out of place. 
Sorry if that's the case.

Comment 10

[Les Orchard [:lorchard]]

Okay, this sounds like a new & different issue than the one originally reported here. Opened bug 926963 to describe the new issue, going to re-close this one rather than hijack the scope.