The display language selector / interface language selector / language settings box, must be easily accessible and at a consistent location in Vector 2022. This severely affects the user-experience of users in multilingual wikis (like Commons) and multi-script wikis (for example the Konkani Wikipedia).
In the old Vector skin, the interface language could easily be changed by selecting the gear cog icon near the languages at the bottom of the left sidebar. Now while reading an article, the language selector box has to be accessed in a few steps:
- Click on the languages button on the top right
- If there are only a few language links displayed, then one has to click on "281 more"
- Then select the easy-to-miss three dots at the lower right of the box
- Click on "Open language settings"
To complicate the situation further, only on the main page, the languages button is at the bottom of the page, rather than at the top. This is very counter-intuitive. I wonder whether anything else in Mediawiki is so dramatically different just on the main page.
In addition, on special pages in Vector22, the user has to access the language settings using the gear icon at the old location in the sidebar.
Please consider modifying the skin so that the link to open the language settings box should have it's own icon / button that is located at the same easily-accessible place regardless of what page the user is on, be it the main page, special pages or any other page.
