From the various roadmaps and plans I don't understand: is this project
still on the radar, is it going to be worked on in 2013-14?
Nemo
Pau Giner, 18/04/2013 18:50:
As multilingual content grows, interlanguage links
become longer on
Wikipedia articles. Articles such as "Barak Obama" or "Sun" have
more
than 200 links, and that becomes a problem for users that often switch
among several languages.
As part of the future plans for the Universal Language Selector, we were
considering to:
* Show only a short list of the relevant languages for the user based
on geo-IP, previous choices and browser settings of the current
user. The language the users are looking for will be there most of
the times.
* Include a "more" option to access the rest of the languages for
which the content exists with an indicator of the number of languages.
* Provide a list of the rest of the languages that users can easily
scan (grouped by script and region ao that alphabetical ordering is
possible), and search (allowing users to search a language name in
another language, using ISO codes or even making typos).
I have created a prototype
<http://pauginer.github.io/prototype-uls/#lisa> to illustrate the idea.
Since this is not connected to the MediaWiki backend, it lacks the
advanced capabilities commented above but you can get the idea.
If you are interested in the missing parts, you can check the flexible
search and the list of likely languages ("common languages" section) on
the language selector used at
http://translatewiki.net/ which is
connected to MediaWiki backend.
As part of the testing process for the ULS language settings, I included
a task to test also the compact interlanguage designs. Users seem to
understand their use (view recording
<https://www.usertesting.com/highlight_reels/qPYxPW1aRi1UazTMFreR>), but
I wanted to get some feedback for changes affecting such an important
element.
Please let me know if you see any possible concern with this approach.
Thanks