ULS language selector does not sort languages intuitively
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Go to https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:Translate?filter=%21translated&action=translate&language=lag&group=ext-0-wikimedia
Click the target language selector ("Kilaangi")
Scroll to the America section

Observed:

Languages are sorted in the following order, which appears to be based on language code:
- kwéyòl (acf)
- Albaamo innaaɬiilka (akz)
- mapudungun (arn)
- Araona (aro)
- American sign language (asl)
- atikamekw (atj)
- Aymar aru (ay)
- Choctaw (cho)
- ᏣᎳᎩ (chr)
- Tsetsêhestâhese (chy)
- Ojibwemowin (ciw)
- etc.

Expected:

The languages are supposed to be grouped by writing system. "ᏣᎳᎩ" is in the Cherokee syllabary, so it's not supposed to be between two Latin autonyms.
After grouping by writing system, the languages are supposed to be sorted alphabetically by autonym and not by language code.

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	Project	Branch	Lines +/-	Subject
	mediawiki/extensions/UniversalLanguageSelector	master	+28 -8	Updates jquery.uls to upstream

Customize query in gerrit

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Mentioned In: T189092: "anqash qichwa" can't be found in the ULS search box
Mentioned Here: T195803: ULS language selector tooltip displays titles written in original languages

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Amire80 created this task.Mar 7 2018, 8:56 AM

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Amire80 moved this task from Backlog to Needs clarification on the UniversalLanguageSelector board.Mar 7 2018, 8:56 AM

Amire80 mentioned this in T189092: "anqash qichwa" can't be found in the ULS search box.Mar 7 2018, 9:00 AM

Looks like this happens everywhere, not only on Special:Translate. For example, in CLL on https://sv.wikipedia.org , Amharic (አማርኛ) appears between Akan and Bamanankan, even though it's supposed to appear separately.

This needs a fix in jquery.uls.

Step 1 towards resolution: https://github.com/wikimedia/language-data/pull/20

Pginer-WMF added a project: Language-2018-Apr-June.May 15 2018, 7:57 AM

Pginer-WMF moved this task from Backlog to Maintenance backlog on the Language-2018-Apr-June board.

Nikerabbit renamed this task from On Special:Translate the target language selector sorts languages incorrectly to ULS language selector does not sort languages intuitively.May 15 2018, 7:58 AM

Solution: https://github.com/wikimedia/jquery.uls/pull/315

Change 434505 had a related patch set uploaded (by Amire80; owner: Amire80):
[mediawiki/extensions/UniversalLanguageSelector@master] Updates jquery.uls to upstream

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/434505

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.May 22 2018, 2:57 PM

Change 434505 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/UniversalLanguageSelector@master] Updates jquery.uls to upstream

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/434505

• Petar.petkovic removed a project: Patch-For-Review.May 22 2018, 4:42 PM

Deployed on translatewiki.

Suppossed to be deployed on the train this week.

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.32-notes (WMF-deploy-2018-05-22 (1.32.0-wmf.5)).May 22 2018, 5:00 PM

Checked - the grouping by script seems to be implemented. I found a small bug - filed as T195803: ULS language selector tooltip displays titles written in original languages

• Petar.petkovic moved this task from QA to Done on the Language-2018-Apr-June board.May 29 2018, 7:09 AM

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