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consider special scenarios for interlanguage links on the main page
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Main pages of some projects have special configurations of interlanguage links on the main pages. Among them French Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, English Wikipedia, and probably others. In particular, if a project limits the number of interlanguage links on the main page, then applying CLL on it creates a misleading result.

This task is for investigating whether Compact Language Links could be optimized for this use case. There are no particular suggestions at the moment, only a design and research task.

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Amire80 created this task.Oct 27 2017, 6:06 AM
Restricted Application added a project: UniversalLanguageSelector. · View Herald TranscriptOct 27 2017, 6:06 AM
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Amire80 moved this task from Backlog to Appearance and design on the ULS-CompactLinks board.Oct 29 2017, 8:59 AM
Amire80 moved this task from Backlog to Compact Language Links on the UniversalLanguageSelector board.Oct 31 2017, 10:52 AM
Amire80 triaged this task as High priority.Dec 18 2017, 7:30 PM
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Amire80 added a project: Language-2018-Jan-Mar.Jan 2 2018, 1:46 PM
Arrbee moved this task from Backlog to Priority backlog on the Language-2018-Jan-Mar board.Jan 9 2018, 8:27 AM
Arrbee assigned this task to Amire80.Jan 9 2018, 8:49 AM
Arrbee moved this task from Priority backlog to In Progress on the Language-2018-Jan-Mar board.Jan 15 2018, 7:16 AM
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Trizek-WMF added a subscriber: Trizek-WMF.Feb 13 2018, 2:42 PM
Amire80 closed subtask T186590: Don't apply Compact Language Links to pages with the noexternallanglinks magic word as Resolved.Feb 15 2018, 8:49 PM
Liuxinyu970226 added a subscriber: Liuxinyu970226.Feb 17 2018, 3:53 AM
Arrbee removed a project: Language-2018-Jan-Mar.Feb 19 2018, 7:05 AM
Amire80 added a project: Wikimedia-Interwiki-links.Mar 4 2018, 11:13 AM

Keeping high priority despite the recent deployment.

Making the main pages consistent and useful to all is important, so it's among the higher-priority issues for the Compact Language Links project.

stjn added a subscriber: stjn.Apr 19 2018, 6:46 PM

One possible solution can be to have locally-set links on page without {{noexternallanglinks}} tag (so communities could decide this on their own) to act like a ‘Recommended’ list that would always be displayed in the sidebar with ULS and prioritised in mobile version. Don’t know whether that would be good enough (since it might be abused on non-Main page pages).

(Disclosure: I am coordinating improvements to the main page in Russian Wikipedia and I would’ve liked if mobile users had some access to full interwiki list on the main page without removing custom list for users on desktop. Right now Russian Wikipedia uses a custom list to show interwikis on the main page and it causes the page to show only 40 links in interwiki list on mobile instead of 300.)

Amire80 mentioned this in T197547: Cannot switch between main pages using the language selector in the Android Wikipedia app.Jun 18 2018, 6:13 PM
Amire80 added a project: Language-strategy.Oct 22 2018, 1:01 PM
Amire80 mentioned this in T211985: Improve language icon discoverability in mobile by using icon in desktop.Dec 20 2018, 11:05 AM
ovasileva added a subscriber: ovasileva.Oct 15 2019, 12:15 PM
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Amire80 moved this task from Backlog to Language selection on the Language-strategy board.Jul 30 2020, 9:08 PM
Sunpriat2 mentioned this in T277517: [modern Vector] "Languages" list is not shown on the main page where local languages exist but noexternallanglinks is enabled.Mar 16 2021, 9:17 PM
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