Minh, thanks for the awesome feedback! Response inline. On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Minh Nguyen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2014-11-25 13:27, Adam Baso wrote: > >> Federico, you're right - www.wikipedia.org/ <http://www.wikipedia.org/> >> gets a lot more traffic than m.wikipedia.org/ <http://m.wikipedia.org/>; >> www.wikipedia.org/ <http://www.wikipedia.org/> skews more toward >> English, for several reasons, but it still seems like wiring up a >> JavaScript widget to talk to an API that examines the Accept-Languages, >> or something like that, might be useful for multilingual users and users >> not reading a language listed toward the top of the page. I'm currently >> pretty busy, but we could maybe at least ask Mxn (if not on this list) >> what Mxn thinks, as Mxn has been pretty involved with the global >> Wikipedia portal template. >> > > The portals currently use navigator.languages/.language/.userLanguage to > have the search box default to the first Accept-Language language. I would > certainly be open to having the portal react more noticeably to this value, > for instance by dynamically placing it in the top 10 ring, displacing one > of the larger wikis. Any change in behavior is going to need approval from > the Meta community at least, but that shouldn't stop us from trying. > Yeah, I really like that feature on the search box. I also like your idea about dynamically updating a lang in the top 10 ring. If a dynamic update to the ring isn't okay, I wonder if people would be okay with shimming in the .language/.userLanguage-mapped language (.languages-mapped languages) between the top 10 langs and the search box, for any language not already in the top 10? > > If OTOH the suggestion is to immediately redirect to the indicated > language edition, I'd want to see statistics on the percentage of Wikipedia > visitors whose Accept-Language or UI language actually matches their home > wiki. I suspect that many just leave it set to their operating system > language, which doesn't necessarily match their favorite wiki. It's one > thing for mdot to redirect, because mobile users would be less interested > in a landing page with tiny links. But if the main portal redirects, we'll > quickly get flak for being too [insert language]-centric. Agreed. The suggestion isn't immediate redirect on www.wikipedia.org. > > > Should I BCC Mxn on this thread, or email Mxn >> off-thread? Mxn tries to avoid spam from what I can tell on Mxn's >> personal website. >> > > My resistance has been futile so far. :-\ Me too :)
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