Regarding clutter and ease of finding the right language I believe it helps a lot if the user realizes that the languages are listed in their native form and are mostly in alphabetic order. What often causes difficulty for me is the fact that the languages are often in some strange order (e.g. ordered by their country code instead of the displayed text, cf. Bahasa Indonesia, which makes it harder to spot with a glance whether the article exists on my home wiki or not ).
I would welcome the UX team's opinion on how to improve on the ordering and consistency of the links (e.g. where to put languages in different scripts in the order; would it be helpful if the user's suspected native tongue was offered more prominently by bolding it or putting it to the beginning of the list) without necessarily hiding the links. Could we use the technology used to guess the putative native tongue of our readers to offer them a chance to start the article in their native WP - possibly through Google Translator Toolkit, without sacrificing general usability and annoying our casual readers? Best regards, Bence Damokos _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
