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 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 article, (e.g., https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/普天間飛行場 > ) we also can take account of what editions actually have the article --- > the vast majority of content on Wikipedia only exists in one language or a > few languages. (I.e., the above link redirects me to create the article on > en-wiki although it exists on ja-wiki and Japanese is my second preferred > language by my accept-language header and is an edition I edit captured in > my edit history) > > This isn't an either-or question of which to use, but rather a question of > how all these indicators can be used together to create the best experience. > I would venture that most users don't change their accept-language header > (not even possible on some mobile browsers!) and hence probably list give > only one language. If so, geography and edit history can be signals for > possible second languages beyond the one language in the accept-language > header when hitting the homepage without a specific article. > > Cheers, > Scott > > P.S. It looks like the Universal Language Selector already uses the > accept-language header for its preference screen. > > On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 5:58 AM, Oliver Keyes <oke...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >> >> As I've now said...4 times, I don't think we'd be using geolocation. >> We'd be using the accept-language header. See >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_header_fields#Accept-Language >> >> On 7 May 2015 at 00:52, WereSpielChequers <werespielchequ...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > When a reader comes to Wikipedia from the web we can detect their IP >> > address and that usually geolocates them to a country. More often than not >> > that then tells you the dominant language of that country. >> > >> > If we were to default to official or dominant languages then I predict >> > endless arguments as to which language(s) should be the default in which >> > countries. The large expat community in some parts of the Arab world might >> > prefer English over Arabic. India would want to do things by state, and a >> > whole new front would emerge in the Israeli Palestine debate. >> > >> > Regards >> > >> > Jonathan Cardy >> > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
