Translations:Reading/Web/Desktop Improvements/Repository/Language Switching User Tests/2/en

As part of the Desktop improvements project we're planning to move interlanguage links to a more prominent place in the interface. Since interlanguage links are article specific, i.e. they change depending on which article you're viewing, we think it makes sense to locate them within the article header, rather than the site header (note: see the Language variants and Wiki projects without interlanguage links section below for more notes on those topics). We recently did some user testing to compare the current placement of interlanguage links (in the sidebar) with the proposed location in the article header. The purpose of these tests was to determine if people have an easier time switching languages given the new location of the interlanguage links. The results of the tests confirmed our hypothesis - participants in the test group (new location) we able to find the language switcher quicker than participants in the control group (old location). Based on these results, we plan on continuing to explore moving the language selector to this location as a part of the desktop improvements project.