Topic on Talk:Universal Language Selector

This language selector has replaced the languages I selected for displaying Wikidata labels and descriptions -- and those were the languages I used -- with "English", "British English". "French" and "Latina". Why? English, French and Latin are fine for me, but British English is useless, a total waste of space. There is no British English wiki. Why did someone decide I must have those four? I want to get "German" and "Portuguese" alongside "English" and "Latin" and "French". Why can't I do that? Why didn't this system take note of the choices I had already made or of the way I really work?

On the project page I see the words "you can also do a more detailed work for a single country, see for instance: bug T64346, bug T141650, bug T142070". Maybe I need to do that, but how? Following those links explains nothing.

I also see the words "ULS queries a service that determines your originating country based on your IP address". That doesn't seem to help me: I live in France. No sensible machine would imagine that two forms of English are among the three most important languages in France.

I also see the words "A small popup (technically called "undo popover" or "tipsy") will also appear when ULS changes the language compared to your previous setting". That would be nice, but it seems to be fantasy.

I am not sure why you are seeing those languages in Wikidata. For how to set languages for Wikidata, please see point number 2 in https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:FAQ#General

As for your last comment, the popup only appears when your interface language is changed. That is not the same thing as the set of likely languages provided by ULS.

<s>Thanks for replying. I did indeed set my languages, as indicated in your first sentence, and I have been using Wikidata with those language settings for a year or two. Those are the language settings that have now been overruled (for me). My Babel language choice is still correctly set on my user page -- with no mention of "British English" -- but it is being ignored. I naturally connected this annoying change with the fact that, above the box in which selected language labels and descriptions are shown on each Wikidata page, now appears the little word "Configure", which ls linked not to the FAQ page that you mention, or to my userpage, but to this "Universal Language Selector" page, which seems to be a long explanation of why configuring isn't possible for humans any more.

Perhaps I'm reading it wrong. But it is a plain fact that the language setting method that you mention has suddenly stopped working (for me) and that clicking on the new "configure" link brings me here.</s>

OK, but I just ran a test. I now claim on my user page to be a native speaker of all my languages. That would make me a very unusual person, but it has fooled the interface, which has given me back all my languages at the top of each Wikidata page (and British English is now omitted). Amazing! Sorry to have troubled you :)

You confused ULS with selection of label languages and with babel languages (and there is language interface option too)?

Could be.