Regarding the comments about the importance of language links in the sidebar: if you look here you can see that the language links will be moved to a button/men

Regarding the comments about the importance of language links in the sidebar: if you look here you can see that the language links will be moved to a button/menu in the article header — https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements/Language_Switching_User_Tests https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improveme.... The conclusions of the user testing show that people have a much easier time finding them in the new location.