One thing we could also do is check the accept_language header and prioritise around that; that way we'd be prioritising specifically "the language the user's browser thinks they want".
On 6 May 2015 at 21:28, Stuart A. Yeates <syea...@gmail.com> wrote: > Probably also an excellent time to consider whether we can do anything > for those languages which don't have wikis yet. > > For example, I'm in .nz, which has en, mi and nzs as official > languages, but we're a long way from an nzs.wiki, given that ase.wiki > is still in incubator. With the release of Unicode 8 with Sutton > SignWriting in June, these may or may not kick off in a big way. > > cheers > stuart > -- > ...let us be heard from red core to black sky > > > On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 12:34 PM, Oliver Keyes <oke...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >> Agreed! That's one of the changes I'd really like to push ahead with, >> although we're going to do some more in-depth data collection before >> any redesign :). >> >> On 6 May 2015 at 20:27, Stuart A. Yeates <syea...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Reading that excellent presentation, the thought that struck me was: >>> >>> "If I wanted to subvert the assumption that Wikipedia == en.wiki, >>> linking to http://www.wikipedia.org/ is what I'd do." >>> >>> A smarter http://www.wikipedia.org/ might guess geo-location and thus >>> local languages. >>> >>> cheers >>> stuart >>> >>> -- >>> ...let us be heard from red core to black sky >>> >>> >>> On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 6:40 AM, Oliver Keyes <oke...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >>>> Cross-posting to research and analytics, too! >>>> >>>> >>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>>> From: Oliver Keyes <oke...@wikimedia.org> >>>> Date: 6 May 2015 at 13:11 >>>> Subject: Traffic to the portal from Zero providers >>>> To: wikimedia-sea...@lists.wikimedia.org >>>> >>>> >>>> Hey all, >>>> >>>> (Throwing this to the public list, because transparency is Good) >>>> >>>> I recently did a presentation on a traffic analysis to the Wikipedia >>>> "home page" - www.wikipedia.org.[1] >>>> >>>> One of the biggest visualisations, in impact terms, showed that a lot >>>> of portal traffic - far more, proportionately, than traffic to >>>> Wikipedia overall - is coming from India and Brazil.[2] One of the >>>> hypotheses was that this could be Zero traffic. >>>> >>>> I've done a basic analysis of the traffic, looking specifically at the >>>> zero headers,[3] and this hypothesis turns out to be incorrect - >>>> almost no zero traffic is hitting the portal. The traffic we're seeing >>>> from Brazil and India is not zero-based. >>>> >>>> This makes a lot of sense (the reason mobile traffic redirects to the >>>> enwiki home page from the portal is the Zero extension, so presumably >>>> this happens specifically to Zero traffic) but it does mean that our >>>> null hypothesis - that this traffic is down to ISP-level or >>>> device-level design choices and links - is more likely to be correct. >>>> >>>> [1] http://ironholds.org/misc/homepage_presentation.html >>>> [2] http://ironholds.org/misc/homepage_presentation.html#/11 >>>> [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T98076 >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Oliver Keyes >>>> Research Analyst >>>> Wikimedia Foundation >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Oliver Keyes >>>> Research Analyst >>>> Wikimedia Foundation >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wiki-research-l mailing list >>>> Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wiki-research-l mailing list >>> Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> >> >> >> -- >> Oliver Keyes >> Research Analyst >> Wikimedia Foundation >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l -- Oliver Keyes Research Analyst Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
