I do the same, to find pictures. Usually by choosing the local language (e.g Italian for a building in Rome) On Jan 9, 2013 12:02 PM, "Jane Darnell" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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? > > 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 > > 2013/1/8 Platonides <[email protected]> > >> 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. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > >
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