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[SPIKE 8hrs] How does language switching work?
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Description

We would like to learn more about the language switcher prior to making improvements

User stories

As a reader or editor of Wikipedia, I would like the site to collapse the list of languages so that I can focus on my reading experience

As a reader or editor of Wikipedia, I would like the site to suggest languages that are relevant to me on every article so that I don't need to see the list of all languages

As a reader or editor of Wikipedia, I would like the ability to switch languages from a more prominent position on the page so that I don't have to scroll to see my language

Acceptance criteria

Research the following questions and write up your results:

  • Are there any constraints to achieving the user stories above?
  • How are the language switchers on desktop and minerva implemented?
  • What are the differences between language switching on desktop and mobile?
  • How does the language cog get added to the page?
  • How does the pointer to the language cog work? Can it easily be modified to point in other locations?

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ovasileva created this task.Sep 23 2019, 11:06 AM
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Jdlrobson updated the task description. (Show Details)Sep 25 2019, 4:45 PM
Jdlrobson added projects: UniversalLanguageSelector, Language-Team.
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Languages on Vector use the UniversalLanguageSelector extension. Potentially we'd be moving the language selector to another location in the page (maybe top right) so this would impact things like the pointy arrow (see screen) as well as how we insert the button in the page

@Amire80 who would be the best person be to talk to to get an overview of this extension and how it can be adapted for use in another skin?

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ovasileva renamed this task from [SPIKE] How does language switching work? to [SPIKE 8hrs] How does language switching work?.Sep 25 2019, 4:45 PM
Jdlrobson moved this task from Needs Analysis to Upcoming on the Web-Team-Backlog-Archived (Readers-Web-Kanbanana-2019-20-Q1) board.Sep 25 2019, 4:58 PM
ovasileva moved this task from Upcoming to Ready for Development on the Web-Team-Backlog-Archived (Readers-Web-Kanbanana-2019-20-Q1) board.Sep 25 2019, 5:14 PM
Nikerabbit subscribed.Sep 25 2019, 9:18 PM

Is this about selecting wiki (aka content) language or the interface language? Or both?

Jdlrobson assigned this task to ovasileva.Sep 25 2019, 9:19 PM

Can you clarify this question from @Nikerabbit @ovasileva ?

ovasileva added a comment.Sep 26 2019, 8:32 AM
In T233611#5523884, @Nikerabbit wrote:

Is this about selecting wiki (aka content) language or the interface language? Or both?

@Nikerabbit - It would be around the former (selecting a wiki). We're exploring giving the language switcher a more prominent position on the page. This task is focused on doing some preliminary research around this in order to determine what's viable.

ovasileva moved this task from Incoming to Q1 2019-2020 on the Vector 2022 board.Sep 30 2019, 12:07 PM
MBinder_WMF edited projects, added Web-Team-Backlog-Archived (Kanbanana-2019-20-Q2); removed Web-Team-Backlog-Archived (Readers-Web-Kanbanana-2019-20-Q1).Sep 30 2019, 5:19 PM
MBinder_WMF moved this task from Needs Analysis to Ready for Development on the Web-Team-Backlog-Archived (Kanbanana-2019-20-Q2) board.Sep 30 2019, 5:22 PM
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Amire80 added a comment.Oct 8 2019, 7:41 PM

I'd be very, very happy to discuss it any time, both about desktop and mobile. How will it be done? Video meeting? Document? Something else?

If it's relevant, I'll be at the Tech Conf in Atlanta, and will be happy to talk about it there.

• nray added a comment.EditedOct 8 2019, 10:13 PM

@Amire80 I just sent you an invite on google calendar. Would love to chat with you a bit about the universal language selector!

ovasileva moved this task from Q1 2019-2020 to Q2 2019-2020 on the Vector 2022 board.Oct 9 2019, 4:36 PM
ovasileva added a parent task: T235111: GOAL: Determine scope of Desktop Improvements begin technical setup.
• nray added a comment.EditedOct 12 2019, 12:49 AM

Here are my findings from this investigation. Feel free to leave comments on the doc or on this ticket!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/12dRYPg8_S8gEprgGF6XgT0Htmew9vJCBCFGsPm9Cs_o/edit?usp=sharing

Special thanks to @Amire80 who met with me and shared a ton of good info about ULS and language switching!

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ovasileva added a comment.Oct 15 2019, 11:03 AM

@nray - would it be okay if I copy some of your findings from the doc to the project page?

• nray added a comment.Oct 15 2019, 3:35 PM
In T233611#5574789, @ovasileva wrote:

@nray - would it be okay if I copy some of your findings from the doc to the project page?

absolutely, go for it!

MBinder_WMF changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Spike".Oct 21 2019, 5:08 PM
ovasileva claimed this task.Oct 22 2019, 5:06 PM
ovasileva added a comment.Oct 23 2019, 10:30 AM

Now published in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements/Language_Switching_Research

ovasileva closed this task as Resolved.Oct 23 2019, 5:04 PM
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