https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51533
--- Comment #10 from Tilman Bayer <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #7) > For someone who doesn't speak multiple languages listing the languages at the > top is rather frustrating (especially on mobile) Actually I'm not sure I fully understand - isn't that language list already collapsed at the bottom in the mobile view, at least for pages on Meta that use the Translate extension? (e.g. https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_July_2013 - btw, it's very problematic that the list behind that "Read in another language" button lists all initiated translations without indication about their completion status, even when they are only 2% complete. Currently only 4 of the 35 language versions listed there are fully complete). This bug was originally only about the "This page is a translated version of..." sentence on top. > > I think the key thing is there should be a consistent way of displaying > languages. Currently in the Vector skin languages appear in the left hand > navigation menu. We should be consistent and treat these language links the > same. It is terrible user experience to have 2 places for what effectively in > result are the same thing. They are not the same thing. The interwiki links in the left sidebar link to pages about the same topic in other projects, which in most cases contain very different text (it's a common misconception that different language Wikipedias are just translations of each other - they're not). The language list on top however customarily links to translations of the same text - "customarily" in the sense that it's handled like this in the Translate extension, in the old translation system on Meta (i.e. the usual position of https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Other_languages ), on Global Voices, on the Flickr blog, and also on Commons, another multilingual Wikimedia project. On Commons you can actually see both kinds of links used on the same page, separated by position: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Drawings (the left sidebar links to categories about the same topic with different content, the box on top links to translated, identical descriptions of the same category with the same content). > > The mobile site is currently extremely broken as a result of this > inconsistency. You have to scroll before you can view any content - fine on a > touch phone but not so fine on an older device where scrolling is slow... Again, that's not the case on my S3 where the "This page is a translated version of..." message takes up only one sixth of the screen for https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_July_2013 . We appear to be talking about different things. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
