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Compact language links: language list with just the languages that are more relevant to you

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JMGN (talkcontribs)

Can I use this feaure in Wiktionary, choosing certain languages in a certain order?

Amire80 (talkcontribs)

It's already out of beta in Wiktionary. Perhaps you have disabled it in the preferences. You can re-enable it under the Appearance tab in the preferences. The preference name is "Use a compact language list, with languages relevant to you."

JMGN (talkcontribs)

I cannot set it right for Wiktionary. Could you please post step-by-step guidelines to configure it as I please?

Amire80 (talkcontribs)

What do you mean by "set it right"? How do you expect it to be, and what do you actually see?

JMGN (talkcontribs)

Searching for "a", https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/a, currently in the entry the content for 99 languages is unfolded. I'd like to restrict not only the number of languages but the order in wich they appear.

Amire80 (talkcontribs)

First, two questions:

  1. Do you have JavaScript enabled?
  2. In your Preferences, in the Appearance tab, do you have the preference "Use a compact language list, with languages relevant to you." enabled?
JMGN (talkcontribs)

"Use a compact language list, with languages relevant to you." is enabled.

Regarding Java, do you mean in my browser?

Amire80 (talkcontribs)

I mean JavaScript, not Java. You can check it for example here. If you see "Yes" at the top of the page, then it's enabled.

JMGN (talkcontribs)

Thanks for your patience with me. Yes it is. Next step then?

Amire80 (talkcontribs)

Sure, no problem. I want this to work well for everybody.

Can you please tell me which operating system and browser version are you using?

JMGN (talkcontribs)

W7 home premium

chrome 62.0.3202.75

Yet I'd like to know where to select that "compact language list", and whether I can set a certain order of apperance for those languages.

Amire80 (talkcontribs)

OK, it should work well on this browser, so I wonder why do you see the list as unfolded even though you have the preference enabled.

Can you please turn of the JavaScript console by pressing F12 and check whether you see any error messages there when you open a page, for example https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/a ?

JMGN (talkcontribs)
JMGN (talkcontribs)

Is there any problem with the info. in the snap?

Amire80 (talkcontribs)

Strange. Nothing there looks broken. Just harmless warnings.

Can you please do this again, click "Default levels" next to "Filter", and select "Errors"?

Also, can you please go to w:fr:ASCII, and check whether you see the compact list with a "64 de plus" button, or a long list?

JMGN (talkcontribs)

Hi again.

I can confirm errors is already selected.

Regarding the  "64 de plus", I can indeed select it,

Now, I've realized we can be talking about different issues. I am concerned about the languages offered for a certain entry in the English version of wiktionary. That is, for https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/a, there're 99 languages with the term "a" in their lexicon, all of them explained in the English language (for example, for french, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/a#Etymology_3_12 the third etymology reads "third-person singular present indicative of avoir".

Yet, you could choose the French interface to see the same info., https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/a#Forme_de_verbe.

Now , I want to limit the languages which show the term that's been searched, not those of the interface offered on the lelft of the page.

Amire80 (talkcontribs)

Oh! Yes, we are talking about different issues :)

Compact Language Links is about the interlanguage links that appear on the sidebar. These are links to corresponding pages in editions of Wiktionary in other languages. This information comes from Wikidata.

You are asking about the page content in the English Wiktionary itself. Currently Universal Language Selector can't be used for this, at least not in a uniform way across all editions of Wiktionary. I agree that it would be a useful feature, but currently it's too complicated to do it. Perhaps developers of local gadgets in the English Wiktionary can address. The good long-term solution is putting lexical data in Wikidata, but that will probably take years.

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