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Bug 22781 - Feature request: Prefered languages feature
Feature request: Prefered languages feature
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 16888
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
General/Unknown (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Low enhancement (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2010-03-09 13:55 UTC by -
Modified: 2014-01-03 16:14 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description - 2010-03-09 13:55:35 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.
Comment 1 Sam Reed (reedy) 2010-03-10 09:45:52 UTC
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?
Comment 2 - 2010-03-10 10:24:43 UTC
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.
Comment 3 Niklas Laxström 2010-03-10 10:41:51 UTC
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.
Comment 4 John Mark Vandenberg 2013-10-02 03:37:15 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 16888 ***

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