Hi @cooltey - just wanted to clarify the steps of this bug as I'm trying to understand your proposal:

Within the app, when users choose to view an article in "Other languages" the ZH version of that article to be viewed is presented as split into two options, so a user can choose to view it either in "Traditional Chinese" or "Simplified Chinese" variant in one-step (ie. "ZH" and the variant HANT or HANS in one selection). However, I believe the issue is that once the user is on that Chinese language version of that article, ZH (in any variant) will no longer be shown in the list of other language because it is already technically set to Chinese, much in the same way an EN-wiki article does not include English in the "Other languages" option.

Bearing that in mind, are you suggesting that we change it so that users select 'Chinese' as a language, and add a second step to select the 5 geo-variants? If so this would be quite a change to the existing behavior where the variant type is selected as a single language setting:

Thanks @RHo

In my opinion, it is not necessary to add a second step to select the 5 geo-variants.

We can dynamically add these 5 geo-variant items into the original "Other Language" list when user selects a "Chinese Language", and the ideal way is to move these 5 geo-variants to the top of the lists.

As you can see, we can add these 5 geo-variant items into the top of the "Other Language" list.

hi @cooltey - It seems unexpected for the user that only after selecting Trad/Simp Chinese in the article that these 5 geo-variants included in the 'Other Languages' list. Unless you are saying we should no longer have the selection of the 2 variants Traditional/Simplified across the app, but have users select one of the 5 geo-variants instead?

If so, we would have to change the selection at the app settings level and search language, as well as the "Other languages" list. If this solves the variant issues then I would be supportive. And would this be non-disruptive to existing users who have already set their Wiki app language to Trad/Simp - ie would their language setting automatically get changed to a matching geo-variant?

Thanks @RHo, How about:

• Solution 1: Detect the "Other Language" to see if we have Trad/Simp Chinese in the list, and then we can dynamically replace/add 5 geo-variants into the list. (Before selecting Trad/Simp Chinese)
• Solution 2: Keep it simple, remain two Chinese variants in the list, and make sure the Trad/Simp Chinese are added into the list when user is reading a Chinese article. (After selecting Trad/Simp Chinese)

It is also a good way to add 5 geo-variants into the app setting level and search language, but it might affect the exiting users who have already setup the app language in Trad/Simp Chinese.

Change 381896 had a related patch set uploaded (by Cooltey; owner: Cooltey):
[apps/android/wikipedia@master] Fix: Language switch between Chinese variants

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/381896

Change 381896 merged by jenkins-bot:
[apps/android/wikipedia@master] Fix: Language switch between Chinese variants

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/381896

This is fixed on Nexus 5 (6.0.1), Wikipedia v2.6.203-alpha-2017-10-11.

Tested on Nexus 4 with Android 5.1.1 and Pixel with Android 8.0.0 on Alpha App 2.6.203-alpha-2017-10-11

This one looks good. I am seeing both variants.