Thread:Talk:Universal Language Selector/My comments: countries and inputbox

First of all: this looks really nice. Some comments:


 * I am a bit skeptical about the country selection. While it seems nice, I think it might be subject to a lot of complaints like "but language X is also spoken in country Y", or about the number of speakers. Plus, we would need to get the data from somewhere (CLDR?) because we don't currently have that information of where a language is spoken and how many speak it where.
 * The inputbox is something I have been thinking about for some time and I really want it (similar to the one on OmegaWiki). It should replace the current selector. Also, a language selector is used on various places (e.g. Special:Translate, ...) and you don't need or you can't have such a huge selection form everywhere. And it should be able to search in language names in the content language, user language and/or autonyms. When selecting a user interface language, it makes sense to make autonyms the primary language name, in other places like Special:Translate it makes sense to have the names primarily in the user language.