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The extra click is an inconvenience that they also noted themselves. But it definitely was designed with multilingual use in mind, see here https://www.mediawik
by trfzx 4y ago
The extra click is an inconvenience that they also noted themselves. But it definitely was designed with multilingual use in mind, see here https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements/Features/Language_switching https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improveme...
- rhn_mk1 4y agoThank goodness they are not as hung up on having a button as it initially appears: "We are currently considering adding single-click functionality for the most-frequently used languages." Sadly, while that means that the overall experience will be improved, it will solve exactly nothing for those who are unlucky enough to use a less-frequently-used language.
- trfzx 4y agoI think they might mean most-frequently used of that user (I think the "suggested languages" already are supposed to work like that.) But that presumably requires an account.
- pwinnski 4y agoIt has already taken multiple clicks for users wanting to read English Wikipedia in a language that wasn't one of the nine in the sidebar. In fact, clicking the "287 more" link at the bottom of the left sidebar in the old design brought up the exact same box that clicking the "297 languages" link at the top of the new design does, with the same list of languages in the same order. Alternatively, one could create an account and set a default language, or visit a wikipedia site dedicated to that language. https://en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org vs https://zh.wikipedia.org https://zh.wikipedia.org for example. Once you've switched, further links within the site should keep you in that language.
- rhn_mk1 4y agoI've always seen all the language links in the sidebar without clicking anything. I can see how, if you have had a different experience, the new arrangement might seem less of a disruption.
- pwinnski 4y agoWow! So if you go to this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia?useskin=vector https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia?useskin=vector You see something different from this? https://ibb.co/pKbgw6w https://ibb.co/pKbgw6w Are you logged in, perhaps?
- rhn_mk1 4y agoNot logged in. This is the first link: https://paste.pics/dca5897542c8fb939608262307aeafed https://paste.pics/dca5897542c8fb939608262307aeafed Many thanks for the query workaround!