Maniphest T195803

ULS language selector tooltip displays titles written in original languages
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	Etonkovidova
	May 29 2018, 1:08 AM

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Looking at ULS on https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:Translate?filter=%21translated&action=translate&language=lag&group=ext-0-wikimedia, I found three instances where a tooltip displays language title in the original language - e.g. instead of

<li title="Mingrelian" data-code="xmf"><a class="autonym" lang="xmf" dir="ltr">მარგალური</a></li>

the tooltip will be as following:
(1) <li title="արեւմտահայերէն" data-code="hyw"><a class="autonym" lang="hyw" dir="ltr">արեւմտահայերէն</a></li>

(2) <li title="फ़ीजी हिन्दी" data-code="hif-deva"><a class="autonym" lang="hif-deva" dir="ltr">फ़ीजी हिन्दी</a></li>

(3) <li title="𑢹𑣉𑣉" data-code="hoc"><a class="autonym" lang="hoc" dir="ltr">𑢹𑣉𑣉</a></li>

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Mentioned In: T189090: ULS language selector does not sort languages intuitively
Mentioned Here: T188399: Consider scenarios for showing the language name in ULS in the user's interface language instead of autonyms or in addition to them

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Etonkovidova created this task.May 29 2018, 1:08 AM

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Etonkovidova mentioned this in T189090: ULS language selector does not sort languages intuitively.May 29 2018, 1:09 AM

I can reproduce this.

The reason is that we don't have the name of the language in user's language in all contexts. We can show it in Compact Language Links because we have the name in the user language as the tooltip on the sidebar links (it's hacky, but works).

In the long run we should make the name in the user language available in all contexts somehow (see also T188399). As a short-term solution, it may be nice to suppress the tooltip if it just shows the same info, although I'd be happy to hear @Pginer-WMF's opinion about this.

Amire80 moved this task from Backlog to Appearance and design on the UniversalLanguageSelector board.Jun 16 2018, 9:36 AM

In T195803#4294576, @Amire80 wrote:

In the long run we should make the name in the user language available in all contexts somehow (see also T188399). As a short-term solution, it may be nice to suppress the tooltip if it just shows the same info, although I'd be happy to hear @Pginer-WMF's opinion about this.

It make sense to expose the language names in the user language in some way. As you mentioned, this is something to explore in the future. For the short term, showing the tooltip with the same name can help in cases where the language name was cropped with ellipsis. So I'd propose to keep it as it is until we focus on this area to make further improvements.

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