Timwi wrote:
On the English Wikipedia we've already been doing it that way (sorting by the language code), but on the Hungarian Wikipedia (for example) they seem to think that English should always come first.
It is likely the case that the needs of different language communities will be different. Generally, I would imagine that people would like something like "the most popular second language spoken by speakers of this language" to be listed first. That might be English in many areas, but not necessarily everywhere.
One problem I see with alphabetic order is that 'Abkhazian' for example would always come first everywhere. According to Wikipedia, this language is only spoken by 4 different groups about whom Wikipedia has no article. :-(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abkhazian_language
--Jimbo