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Prioritize shown languages based on article's geographic coordinates
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[An idea from hewiki Village Pump (User:ביקורת)]
ULS languages can take advantage of geographic coordinates in Wikidata.
Example:
[[en:2016 attack in Nice]] have coordinates within France => French is the language spoken in France => French should be prioratized

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Aklapper renamed this task from Prioratize based on coordinates to Prioritize shown languages based on article's geographic coordinates.Jul 15 2016, 10:35 AM

Note that some countries have several common languages, and that some countries even can have differences among closely related municipalities. In Norway Norwegian language is the most common language, but in Kautokeino municipality Northern Sami language is a common (possibly the most common) language.

We could simply make a language raster of the globe and adapt the language list to whatever are most common in each subarea.

Note similarity with T133029: Fine-grained geolocation for looking up common languages in ULS