Last modified: 2014-01-03 16:14:45 UTC
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.
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?
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.
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.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 16888 ***
