Last modified: 2014-11-18 08:50:16 UTC
The Wikipedia apps allows to change the language version of the Wikipedia in the settings. Some users want to switch the language of wikipedia more often, e.g. several times a day (e.g. to allow searching in the other language version). Actually it's quite difficult, you have to open the sidebar, tap on "more", and then change the language. Maybe there is a better was to solving this, e.g. with a shortcut for this setting in the sidebar (maybe with a checkbox in the setting itself "show shortcut in sidebar") to implement an opt-in for this. This would make it easier to change the wikipedia language version :) Source (only for OTRS members!): https://ticket.wikimedia.org/otrs/index.pl?Action=AgentTicketZoom&TicketID=7825568
Created attachment 16902 [details] Example of fast search language switching in Wikiamo app
+1 for this feature. This is actually one of the very few things i miss from the honourable old Wikiamo (iOS) app. I'm from the Netherlands and i switch between the Dutch and the English language editions multiple times per day. It's very frustrating to have such a long interaction path to switch between multiple languages. On the Wikiamo app (screenshots attached as an example) the path to change the language is: 1) Open up search 2) Tap the language shortcode next to the search field 3) Select another language Note that the current search query is not deleted and is repeated in the new language. On the Wikipedia app it's: 1) Open up the 'W' 2) Select 'MORE' 3) Select 'Search <language> Wikipedia' 4) Select another language That doesn't seem a lot longer (one step), but in my experience you usually want to switch languages because you're searching for something, and in that case the path is *a lot* longer. Given that you have the search panel open: 1) Hit 'Cancel' 2) Hit 'W' 3) Select 'Search <language> Wikipedia' 4) Select another language 5) Hit the search button again In the Wikiamo app it's only two steps (Hit language code --> Select language) instead of five.
IIRC, some users instead suggested allowing searching multiple languages at the same time...
