There is a user script [1] that does a primitive version of this.
I have found it to be quite useful, so I think it's a good idea to do this
properly.
Petr Onderka
[[en:User:Svick]]
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lampak/MyLanguages
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 6:50 PM, Pau Giner
On 18 April 2013 17:50, Pau Giner pgi...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Please let me know if you see any possible concern with this approach.
My first thought is of how upset people were when the first version of
Vector hid the language links by default. I would suggest being sure
there will be little
On 18 April 2013 20:43, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 18 April 2013 17:50, Pau Giner pgi...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Please let me know if you see any possible concern with this approach.
My first thought is of how upset people were when the first version of
Vector hid the language
I was traditionally in favor of keeping the full language list visible,
but it's just too damn big in many cases and is hard to search through
on any device. On touch devices it's difficult to pick a correct item from
the list as all the links are adjacent (though if you zoom it's ok).
Le jeudi 18 avril 2013 à 18:50 +0200, Pau Giner a écrit :
As multilingual content grows, interlanguage links become longer on
Wikipedia articles. Articles such as Barak Obama or Sun have more
than 200 links, and that becomes a problem for users that often
switch
[…]
As part of the testing
Le jeudi 18 avril 2013 à 12:57 -0700, Brion Vibber a écrit :
On the mobile site we've collapsed the whole thing to an Other languages
section or button (depending on if you're in beta mode) at the bottom of
the article, and this seems to have gotten good usability responses from
mobile users.
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Mathieu Stumpf
psychosl...@culture-libre.org wrote:
Oh by the way, is there an access to discussion pages on the mobile
version now? Last time I checked it wasn't accessible directly, but at
the begining it wasn't possible to access other languages if I'm not
Thanks for all the feedback!
I'll try to respond below to some of the issues raised:
*Which is the problem?*
As it has been mentioned, one of the most effective ways of hiding
something is to surround it in the middle of a long list. This produces two
problems:
- *Lack of discoverability.*
