On 08/01/13 22:31, LD 100 wrote:
I would preferred if this could also be changed by each users individually in the settings (maybe the settings could be set globally)
Although preferences are evil, I see the point for customizing this. Having ar: in the top if I have no idea of that language is useless, I would prefer to sort first those languages I could understand, perhaps with a separator from those I definetely don't know (others might want to completely hide those).
On 08/01/13 22:41, Meng Lu wrote:
It's an interesting point. I personally would prefer seeing the Wikipedia instance's own language and English stay at the top, followed by the rest in alphabetical order. A longer stretch might be providing alternative ordering methods for languages such as alphabetical order, descending sizes of that page in each Wikipedia instance.
Article sizes are not a perfect estimator for article quality, but seems decent enough. However, it should be able to be overriden by marks of Featured-article / Good-article when some of the entries are tagged as such. Con: Any edit potentially means purgin the entries for all interwikis. Although if the interwiki sort order is stored in wikidata, and we perhaps aren't actively purgin the squid entries, that shouldn't be a problem.