It would be ideal if Special:MyLanguage for anonymous users would follow the browser settings of the user in my opinion. Not sure how easy that is, though.

Should we consider change the configuration of

• $wgULSAnonCanChangeLanguage
• $wgULSLanguageDetection

on MediaWiki.org ?

In T184585#8764846, @Winston_Sung wrote:

Should we consider change the configuration of

• $wgULSAnonCanChangeLanguage
• $wgULSLanguageDetection

on MediaWiki.org ?

This is T58464. But I think these are two distinct feature changes.

Oh, yeah. I read it wrong.

Special:MyLanguage is meant to use user language instead of current page language.

Maybe we should add other functionality (parser function {{#languagepage:###/##}}, special page Special:LanguagePage/###/##, etc.) for this?

Note that, if you follow a link to Special:MyLanguage but the page hasn't been translated in your language, it currently redirects you to the base page.

Then, if you follow any of the Special:MyLanguage links on that page, it currently redirects to the translated page for your language if it exists. With this new behavior, unless you come up with a different workaround, you'd get stuck on untranslated pages unless you manually switch to a translated page.

In T184585#8766146, @Ciencia_Al_Poder wrote:

Note that, if you follow a link to Special:MyLanguage but the page hasn't been translated in your language, it currently redirects you to the base page.

This is inaccurate. Special:MyLanguage will follow the language fallback chain to find translations in other languages.

In T184585#8766146, @Ciencia_Al_Poder wrote:

Then, if you follow any of the Special:MyLanguage links on that page, it currently redirects to the translated page for your language if it exists. With this new behavior, unless you come up with a different workaround, you'd get stuck on untranslated pages unless you manually switch to a translated page.

Then it went back to the issue of T58464: Allow anonymous users to change interface language on Wikimedia wikis with ULS as there is currently no way for non-logged-in users to change their user language, either by browser detection or by manual selection.

I think the best design would be to add a session-life-time cookie when the user manually select a language from the language bar: Special:MyLanguage would use this language until the user select another language in the language bar. That would preserve the user choice even after the user has visited a non translated page (so in English).

The current behavior (using user interface language) would be used by default, when the user has not selected a specific language from the language bar (yet).