Topic on Talk:Universal Language Selector/Compact Language Links

While researching about Pedro II, Piauí, a little city in Brasil with a rather terse description in the english wikipedia, I wanted to read the portuguese version, but there was no link in the languages section. Only after opening the "more languages box" I finally found the link to to portuguese wikipedia.

So I suggest to add the language that is local to the topic of the article to the first choice of languages. I don't know anything about the technical background, so it might be not so easy. Maybe one could use the geographic coordinates for this.

Maybe it is easier to consider the length of the article in the different languages. The longer the article, the more it will be of interest also for foreign-language readers.

Hi!

We're actually working on doing just that—as we've been doing a series of tests on the search results page that will show what languages the article can be read in. These languages are based on the region that you're in and any specific browser language settings you might have.

You can read more on our tests on Phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149809 and you can learn how to add a simple link to your logged in profile here: Cross-wiki Search Result Improvements/self-guided testing#Explore similar.

We're testing these improvements only on the search results page at the moment, but if all goes well and feedback and test result data is good, we hope to release it into production on all wikipedias.

Thanks!

This is already done. If the article mentions other languages using the lang attribute, these languages are shown.

This city's name is written the same in English as in Portuguese, so the lang attribute was not applied. I did it in this edit.

There are quite a lot of cities to which this could apply, so perhaps it would be better to apply this attribute more automatically in the template.