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See also brion's comments: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32906#c10

Duping to bug 21806.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 21806 ***

@Brion, this ticket was about content language variants, bug 21806 is about interface language variants.

You can switch the language of the content... am I misunderstanding?

In non-beta you click the W
In beta go to the blue ribbon poking from the right and expand it to choose a language

(In reply to comment #4)
> You can switch the language of the content... am I misunderstanding?

That's language_urls a list of interlanguage links to other wikis.

Some languages such as zh have variants. These are kind of like sub-languages on the same wiki. Usually the same text in another script or something. This works by running a language converter over the page content.

You can see the variant menu by going to https://zh.wikipedia.org/ and looking at the menu beside the two namespace tabs.

This is missing from the mobile site. So it's not fixed.

Created attachment 11193 [details]
screenshot

Since it seems rather common that people forget what variants are, I'll add a screenshot, will save some discussion hopefully.

*** Bug 41875 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Confirmed fixed, though I note that it doesn't skip over some of the aliases/disabled versions of variants:

See also SkinTemplate.php which is responsible for this in skins.


                                        // Loops over each variant
                                        foreach( $variants as $code ) {
                                                // Gets variant name from language code
                                                $varname = $pageLang->getVariantname( $code );
                                                // Checks if the variant is marked as disabled
                                                if( $varname == 'disable' ) {
                                                        // Skips this variant
                                                        continue;
                                                }
                                                // Appends variant link
                                                $content_navigation['variants'][] = array(
                                                        'class' => ( $code == $preferred ) ? 'selected' : false,
                                                        'text' => $varname,
                                                        'href' => $title->getLocalURL( array( 'variant' => $code ) + $params ),
                                                        'lang' => $code,
                                                        'hreflang' => $code
                                                );
                                        }