Last modified: 2013-10-02 05:53:38 UTC
I am a Dutch speaker, and I use both the Dutch and English wikipedia. Many times I look at a topic in both languages, by clicking on the Dutch/English link in the language list on the left side. For a popular article, however, this list is quite long, and it takes some time to look up the language in the list. SUGGESTION: Therefore, it would be nice if I could set in the user preference pane some preferred languages (e.g. English, Dutch, French). This list can then be used in various ways to improve the navigation experience of multilingual users: - colourize the preferred languages in the language list (so that I can find them very quickly) - or, always put (or repeat) these languages on top of the list - provide a link to the language main pages in the header bar BTW: this bug report is similar to bug 11267 ('User should be able to set fallback language(s) in preferences') but not quite the same, so I decided to file a new bug report.
Interwiki links can be configured using a browser extension like https://addons.opera.com/nl/extensions/details/wikipedia-language-bubble/. Please see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ULS , a project in development for making language selection easier. Initially ULS will be for changing interface language but may also cover changing between language editions of wikipedia, using interwiki links. Btw, bug 11267 is not very related to this.
Here is a nice javascript solution for this, you can put it in your common.js: var nlArticle = $('.interwiki-nl a').attr('title'); if (nlArticle) $('h1').append('<span style="margin:0 1em; vertical-align: middle; font-size:0.5em;"><a href="//nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/' + nlArticle + '">' + nlArticle + '</a></span>'); A css solution would be to simply style the link (.interwiki-nl a) in your common.css
*** Bug 22781 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Note, it was proposed to make http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.i18n/662 into a project for [[mw:Mentorship programs/Possible projects]], the WMF is not going to work on it. If you want to see this bug fixed, you have to add a section to that page (a mentor should not be too hard to find) and then push it for a GSoC/OPW candidate or chapter to pick it up.
