Makes sense! I actually hadn't factored in that sort of action
(although it does happen), more: the order of the main page links on
the root
page.
On 7 May 2015 at 03:51, Scott Hale <computermacgyver(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The accept-language header is the obvious place to
start, but there is amble
scope to combine multiple approaches together.
In addition to accept-language and geolocation data, any logged in user will
have view/edit history related to multiple editions. If the user is
requesting a specific article, (e.g.,
https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/普天間飛行場
) we also can take account of what editions actually have the article ---
the vast majority of content on Wikipedia only exists in one language or a
few languages. (I.e., the above link redirects me to create the article on
en-wiki although it exists on ja-wiki and Japanese is my second preferred
language by my accept-language header and is an edition I edit captured in
my edit history)
This isn't an either-or question of which to use, but rather a question of
how all these indicators can be used together to create the best experience.
I would venture that most users don't change their accept-language header
(not even possible on some mobile browsers!) and hence probably list give
only one language. If so, geography and edit history can be signals for
possible second languages beyond the one language in the accept-language
header when hitting the homepage without a specific article.
Cheers,
Scott
P.S. It looks like the Universal Language Selector already uses the
accept-language header for its preference screen.
On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 5:58 AM, Oliver Keyes <okeyes(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
As I've now said...4 times, I don't think we'd be using geolocation.
We'd be using the accept-language header. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_header_fields#Accept-Language
On 7 May 2015 at 00:52, WereSpielChequers <werespielchequers(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> When a reader comes to Wikipedia from the web we can detect their IP
> address and that usually geolocates them to a country. More often than not
> that then tells you the dominant language of that country.
>
> If we were to default to official or dominant languages then I predict
> endless arguments as to which language(s) should be the default in which
> countries. The large expat community in some parts of the Arab world might
> prefer English over Arabic. India would want to do things by state, and a
> whole new front would emerge in the Israeli Palestine debate.
>
> Regards
>
> Jonathan Cardy
>
>
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