The current way is the Compact language links beta feature. Try it, it's
pretty awesome :)
I hope to make it default some time soon.
Very briefly, currently it shows at the top languages selected by
geolocation, and languages that the user clicked in the past (stored in a
cookie). We also plan to add featured articles to the list (and now that
Wikidata annotates them semantically, we don't really have a technical
excuse not to do that ;) ).
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Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
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“We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
2015-02-11 21:08 GMT+02:00 S Page <spage(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
At the Monthly Metrics meeting Asaf gave the example
of Ukrainian speakers
getting Google results for Russian wikipedia articles even though there are
good articles on
uk.wikipedia.org.
Can the list of language links be aware of these situations and present
likely wiki versions of interest higher up?
I tried this with the ru version of the Ukranian language page,
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81%D0…
, and it seems the link to the uk wiki article is starred (yay), but is way
way down a long list, I had to scroll down six screens. Maybe it's ranked
higher if your language is ru or uk.
Cheers,
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=S Page WMF Tech writer
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