Translations:Reading/Web/Desktop Improvements/Repository/Language Switching User Tests/28/en

Global vs. article-specific language switcher — with this test we did not explore people's expectations around language switching, e.g. do they expect the interface and the content to switch languages, or only the content (which is how the iOS and Android apps act)? Do they expect to be sent to a different site/URL? Experienced users might be familiar with the difference between Wiki projects with multiple language versions, wherein interlanguage links lead you to a similar page on a different Wiki project, and Wiki projects that exist only in one language, wherein language switching changes the interface/display language and/or the content but doesn't send you to a different project. However we suspect that this nuance is lost on the average person. In further testing we could: