Last modified: 2014-08-28 00:18:07 UTC
Currently we just have a single 'entry' for Chinese - which happens to be traditional chinese. No way to get to Simplified chinese. We should offer two choices instead - Simplified and Traditional chinese, separately. This should be in the language list in both the settings screen and in the 'in other languages' screen
Minor correction: The current entry for Chinese loads the source text (which could be a mix of both, depending on who edited the article) without converting it. It does not load Traditional Chinese by default.
Thanks for the clarification :) But I suppose the proposed solution (special case the two variants) is acceptable?
Yes. For the time being I don't think supporting showing the unconverted text or the other regionalised variants (zh-tw, -cn, -hk, -mo, -sg) would make for better UX.
Note that some other languages use the same language converter system such as sr; we may as well throw them all in the same special-casing system so we don't have to do more work later. I'd recommend hardcoding a list of known languages-with-variants, and displaying the variants as multiple adjacent items in the main language list. Then we use the combined language + variant to fetch from the right wiki (language in URL) and variant (usevariant=). Hmmm, how will this complicate history & bookmarking? Should we combine them in the entries?
