There is a user script [1] that does a primitive version of this. I have found it to be quite useful, so I think it's a good idea to do this properly.
Petr Onderka [[en:User:Svick]] [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lampak/MyLanguages On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 6:50 PM, Pau Giner <[email protected]> wrote: > As multilingual content grows, interlanguage links become longer on > Wikipedia articles. Articles such as "Barak Obama" or "Sun" have more than > 200 links, and that becomes a problem for users that often switch among > several languages. > > As part of the future plans for the Universal Language Selector, we were > considering to: > > - Show only a short list of the relevant languages for the user based on > geo-IP, previous choices and browser settings of the current user. The > language the users are looking for will be there most of the times. > - Include a "more" option to access the rest of the languages for which > the content exists with an indicator of the number of languages. > - Provide a list of the rest of the languages that users can easily scan > (grouped by script and region ao that alphabetical ordering is > possible), > and search (allowing users to search a language name in another > language, > using ISO codes or even making typos). > > I have created a prototype <http://pauginer.github.io/prototype-uls/#lisa> > to > illustrate the idea. Since this is not connected to the MediaWiki backend, > it lacks the advanced capabilities commented above but you can get the > idea. > If you are interested in the missing parts, you can check the flexible > search and the list of likely languages ("common languages" section) on the > language selector used at http://translatewiki.net/ which is connected to > MediaWiki backend. > > As part of the testing process for the ULS language settings, I included a > task to test also the compact interlanguage designs. Users seem to > understand their use (view > recording<https://www.usertesting.com/highlight_reels/qPYxPW1aRi1UazTMFreR > >), > but I wanted to get some feedback for changes affecting such an important > element. > > Please let me know if you see any possible concern with this approach. > > Thanks > > > -- > Pau Giner > Interaction Designer > Wikimedia Foundation > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
