Re: [Wiki-research-l] Fwd: Traffic to the portal from Zero providers

2015-05-07 Thread Oliver Keyes
Makes sense! I actually hadn't factored in that sort of action (although it does happen), more: the order of the main page links on the root www.wikipedia.org page. On 7 May 2015 at 03:51, Scott Hale computermacgy...@gmail.com wrote: The accept-language header is the obvious place to start, but

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Fwd: Traffic to the portal from Zero providers

2015-05-07 Thread Scott Hale
The accept-language header is the obvious place to start, but there is amble scope to combine multiple approaches together. In addition to accept-language and geolocation data, any logged in user will have view/edit history related to multiple editions. If the user is requesting a specific

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Fwd: Traffic to the portal from Zero providers

2015-05-07 Thread Stuart A. Yeates
Accept-language is systematically broken for minority languages within dominant language communities. In New Zealand, a country with three official languages and a textbook case of language revivalism, I've never met anyone without a degree in computer science who sets accept-language, and I've

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Fwd: Traffic to the portal from Zero providers

2015-05-07 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Thanks for looking into www.wikipedia.org traffic from India; I've been complaining about it for a while. :) See also: * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T26767 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T5665 Mark J. Nelson, 07/05/2015 04:24: But for the average Copenhagener, the following order is

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Fwd: Traffic to the portal from Zero providers

2015-05-07 Thread Oliver Keyes
Thanks for the bugs, Nemo! (search team: should we take those over?) On 7 May 2015 at 03:08, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for looking into www.wikipedia.org traffic from India; I've been complaining about it for a while. :) See also: *

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Fwd: Traffic to the portal from Zero providers

2015-05-07 Thread Oliver Keyes
Interesting! This I didn't know; I'll factor it in :). On 7 May 2015 at 04:48, Stuart A. Yeates syea...@gmail.com wrote: Accept-language is systematically broken for minority languages within dominant language communities. In New Zealand, a country with three official languages and a textbook

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Fwd: Traffic to the portal from Zero providers

2015-05-07 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Scott Hale, 07/05/2015 09:51: The accept-language header is the obvious place to start, but there is amble scope to combine multiple approaches together. Which is what UniversalLanguageSelector / jquery.uls, used on all Wikimedia projects, exists for. :) In addition to accept-language and