Last modified: 2010-04-11 20:23:31 UTC
I have noticed that the interwiki links--the links that appear on every Wikipedia page in the left-handed box called "languages", below the "toolbox", and which lead the reader to the corresponding article in other languages--has the names of the languages ordered in alphabetical order, with the language name given in the language it represents. For instance, the articles in German are indicated by the word "Deutsch", set at the level "D" in the sequence of interwiki links, or the word "Farsi" is at the level "F", although that language does not uses the Latin alphabet. This works very well, except the name of the Finnish language is "Suomi" in Finnish, and, well, Finnish in English. It consistently appears at the "F" level of the sequence in ALL Wikipedias except the English one. My guess is that the robots arrange and rearrange the name of this language according to its English name, any time a new language is introduced. I usually use the Romanian Wiki, but I have noticed that this is the case in the French, German, Hungarian, etc ones, all Wikipedias except of the English one. I wonder if the robots for all the non-English Wikipedia could accommodate the Finnish name of the Finnish (Suomi), by setting it to the correct place in the sequence of the respective box. It might be that a simple code change would do the correction. Thank you.
I have noticed that the interwiki links--the links that appear on every Wikipedia page in the left-handed box called "languages", below the "toolbox", and which lead the reader to the corresponding article in other languages--has the names of the languages ordered in alphabetical order, with the language name given in the language it represents. For instance, the articles in German are indicated by the word "Deutsch", set at the level "D" in the sequence of interwiki links, or the word "Farsi" is at the level "F", although that language does not uses the Latin alphabet. This works very well, except the name of the Finnish language is "Suomi" in Finnish, and, well, Finnish in English. It consistently appears at the "F" level of the sequence in ALL Wikipedias except the English one. My guess is that the robots arrange and rearrange the name of this language according to its English name, any time a new language is introduced. I usually use the Romanian Wiki, but I have noticed that this is the case in the French, German, Hungarian, etc ones, all Wikipedias except of the English one. I wonder if the robots for all the non-English Wikipedia could accommodate the Finnish name of the Finnish (Suomi), by setting it to the correct place in the sequence of the respective box. It might be that a simple code change would do the correction. Thank you
The sort order is the order of the links on the page. These are mainly maintained using the pywikipediabot, but you'll have to get the bot owners to agree on a better sort order.
