Last modified: 2014-05-03 11:46:10 UTC
Beneath the interwiki links, add a counter, such as (for en.Wikipedia), say: Total: 45 languages
How would it be useful?
It would prevent me from having to manually count them ;-) It would be useful for people thinking of linking to articles with QRpedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QRpedia> and it would have a promotional benefit, emphasising to users in their own languages that such translations are possible.
This seems like something a JavaScript gadget would be good for. A gadget could simply iterate through the "languages" <ul> and count elements with <li class="interwiki-foo"> and then return a result that can be easily injected into the sidebar at the bottom (or wherever). Or if you wanted to get wild, you could hit the API and do a count from the stored data, but using the cached HTML seems far saner. It should only take a few minutes to write such a tool. Andy: would this be sufficient for you? Or do you think that it's important for MediaWiki to have this feature?
It would work for me (though I wouldn't be able to write it), but it wouldn't have the promotional advantages of being viewed by other editors.
This is basically going to be solved by bug 64793, which already has a design review. It's an extension, but I'm not sure the count is something worth merging to core anyway. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 64793 ***
