Thread:Talk:Universal Language Selector/My thoughts


 * I don't think there's really a need for Font settings. Users shouldn't have to deal with changing fonts, it should just be the right font at the start.
 * Likewise, I don't see the need for making UI settings very accessible. It's a a very rare situation that a user would need a different language for the UI than the language of the content of the wiki they're using. For heavy editors that would need this, it can be set from the preferences menu.
 * Attaching input settings to the language settings seems unnecessarily confusing, in my opinion. For languages that have need for special input tools, the tools are generally visible somehow/show some visible element, either when the box is focused or when some button near the input box/textarea is clicked, right? (Not sure about this.)
 * I think it makes sense to highlight languages that are more likely to be relevant to the user by taking into account geographic location, but I don't think it makes sense to do it by dividing places into either countries or standard geographic regions. Rather, I would do it like this:
 * Take all IP addresses that visit the project. Divide these IPs into IP-groups of about the same size, each large enough to get a good statistical sample of visits, with each IP in each group somewhat geographically close to all the other IPs in the group. Keep track of the visits by each IP-group to each language version. Then, for each user in an IP-group that's looking to switch to their preferred language, highlight (preferably by way of placing these on top) the 5-12 (available) languages that score highest in the following test: Visits by the IP-group to the language version ^ 2 / total visits to the language version by all IP-groups.
 * Tracking which languages have been read by a particular user and using that data to determine "likely languages" is a bad idea, in my opinion. Wikimedia has a pretty good reputation about these kinds of things so far.
 * Having a "remember that I often use this language" checkbox available would be useful though, in my opinion.
 * Allowing the searchbox to also work with approximate transliterations of language names into different scripts would be helpful, I think.
 * If multi-script languages are to be shown per-script, the page the user ends up at after clicking one of the links should be in the same script that the link was.