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Feature request: Prefered languages feature
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Author: einar.soendergaard.rasmussen

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When I visit Wikipedia and log in with my username to view a some article, I don't want to see the complete list of languages, the article is available in. I want a short and usefull list with only the languages I can read. There should be a way to configure this in the profile. It could be called "Prefered languages".

When an article doesn't exist in my most prefered language, I should presented my second most prefered language, or the short list of langauges I read.

The 50+ language list is as useless as it is impressive for most users.

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Severity: enhancement

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 11:02 PM
• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-General.
• bzimport set Reference to bz22781.
• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).
• bzimport created this task.Mar 9 2010, 1:55 PM
Reedy added a comment.Mar 10 2010, 9:45 AM

I can see why you're suggesting this, though, personally it doesn't bother me, and with some pages I use the interwiki links (granted, mainly in Wikipedia pages)....

Are you suggesting the user can specify a language preference list?

• bzimport added a comment.Mar 10 2010, 10:24 AM

einar.soendergaard.rasmussen wrote:

This is exactly, what I would like to suggest.

I am a Dane and the Danish Wikipedia isn't the biggest out there. But Danish, Norwegian(Bokmål and Nynorsk) and Swedish is mutual understandable (intelligible?) - especially the written word. I think that many articles only exist in one of these languages for this reason.

For example my list would look like:

English
Danish
Norwegian (Bokmål)
Norwegian (Nynorsk)
Swedish
German

I find this a little annoying every time to find these between the other 20, when the English article doesn't exist. The 20 others are simply irrelevant to my interests.

Nikerabbit added a comment.Mar 10 2010, 10:41 AM

FYI, Translate extension has a preferences plugin that allows selecting list of language codes either by manual input or from list. It could be a start, but more useful when/if we have global preferences someday.

jayvdb added a comment.Oct 2 2013, 3:37 AM
  • This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 16888 ***
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