Hoi,
Expanding to the full name of a language .... eh, do I speak Dutch,
Niederlandisch or Nederlands ? And when I speak all those languages, how do
I get all the different names for the language that I recognise as my
mother tongue ?
Thanks,
Gerard
On 10 January 2013 13:06, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Maybe you could incorporate a link to the International codes for
> languages and expand the language code to the full name?
>
> Carol
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> I think the order of languages is only important for articles with lots of
> interwiki links, but for the vast majority of articles there will be less
> than 5 or so and it doesn't matter. I often click on article interwikis for
> languages I don't know and can't read (like Japanese). I do this for
> several reasons, the most prevalent being that I want to see
> 1) How many links to that page are there in that language?
> 2) How many items (and which items are these) that are in the articles
> category in that language?
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> I tend to only do this for the larger Wikipedia projects, where I do this
> regularly as a trick to track down articles in foreign languages that are
> good candidates to translate into English (the fathers/sons/siblings of
> painters).
> Jane
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> 2013/1/8 Platonides <[email protected]>
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> > On 08/01/13 22:31, LD 100 wrote:
> > > I would preferred if this could also be changed by each users
> > > individually in the settings (maybe the settings could be set
> > > globally)
> >
> > Although preferences are evil, I see the point for customizing this.
> > Having ar: in the top if I have no idea of that language is useless, I
> > would prefer to sort first those languages I could understand, perhaps
> > with a separator from those I definetely don't know (others might want
> > to completely hide those).
> >
> >
> > On 08/01/13 22:41, Meng Lu wrote:
> > > It's an interesting point. I personally would prefer seeing the
> > > Wikipedia instance's own language and English stay at the top, followed
> > > by the rest in alphabetical order. A longer stretch might be
> > > providing alternative ordering methods for languages such as
> > > alphabetical order, descending sizes of that page in each Wikipedia
> > > instance.
> >
> > Article sizes are not a perfect estimator for article quality, but seems
> > decent enough. However, it should be able to be overriden by marks of
> > Featured-article / Good-article when some of the entries are tagged as
> > such.
> > Con: Any edit potentially means purgin the entries for all interwikis.
> > Although if the interwiki sort order is stored in wikidata, and we
> > perhaps aren't actively purgin the squid entries, that shouldn't be a
> > problem.
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