Few of the issues which are interconnected and need immediate action:
In all the Indic Wikipedias the icon for switching between English and Indic languages is missing. There should be also few more features enabled:
A) Webfont enable/disable option should not be a four layer process: Click on the keyboard icon -> Gear icon -> Display -> Font. It should be a simple dropdown like it was earlier because that makes it simple for a new user.
B) How someone would learn how to enable the language typing for the first time? There is no icon. To understand this user experience I showed Odia Wikipedia to few old and young people. Most of them could not figure out a way to enable it. It looks great and is interactive but takes a users in many layers to enable a simple thing like enabling the language typing tool or disabling the web font.
Because I know Ctrl+M is a shortcut for enabling typing tool I do that out of practice. A first time user would never click on a floating keyboard icon and then notice the shortcut and use it, it should be somewhere on the top near the username or Log in link; a simple Enable/Disable (Press Ctrl+M to type in XXX language) would be simpler and easy in addition to the interactive UI for ULS.
Most importantly there is no simple manual/guide for the wikipedians to switch between languages. I have made one small guide for Punjabi Wikipedia (https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Typing) and the link is on the site notice. So, someone who is landing on Wikipedia for the first time could also notices it and go through the guide to enable his/her language.
Many of the transliterated spelling for the typing scheme are wrong. Please involve the community to transliterate such vital parts of a tool. Thousands and millions of users would be facing problems everyday to figure out what exactly that gibberish word and failing to click to enable the tool they want to use.
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