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, -- =S Page WMF Tech writer
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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2015-02-11 21:08 GMT+02:00 S Page spage@wikimedia.org:
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,
=S Page WMF Tech writer
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S Page, 11/02/2015 20:08:
Ukrainian speakers getting Google results for Russian wikipedia articles even though there are good articles on uk.wikipedia.org http://uk.wikipedia.org.
As I said in https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-February/080668.html , this is tracked at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T3433
But sure, when it's too late we can still put a patch on it thanks to compact interlanguage links.
Nemo
P.s.: We need help of people in *your* country! https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ULS/FAQ#language-territory
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