0) Move to Italy and more precisely Milan
I. https://bits.wikimedia.org/geoiplookup says Geo = {"city":"Milan","country":"IT",[...]}
- Enable the beta feature for compact interlanguage links at https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures
- Visit the main page and check the interlanguage links.
II. Observed:
In other languages
Edit links Complete list català Deutsch Ελληνικά français furlan hrvatski italiano Nnapulitano sicilianu slovenščina … 277 more languages
III. Expected: it's near impossible that I care about català, furlan, Nnapulitano or sicilianu especially as I'm not in any of those regions; and rather rare that I could care for Ελληνικά, hrvatski or slovenščina. On the other hand:
a) I surely want to see all the languages most studied in Italy, i.e. English [when I'm not on an en wiki], French, Spanish, Latin and maybe Russian (in this order);
b) I probably want the (romance) languages which are most closely related to Italian and likely to be useful for a superficial reading, like Portuguese and Romanian in addition to Spanish and French;
c) I may want the other languages historically taught in schools ex law 492/1995 i.e. sq, ca, fr, hr, fur, el, oc, frp, sl, de, fr, srd, lld BUT only in the regions where they are relevant if we're able to make such a distinction;
d) native languages of biggest immigrant populations (over 100k inhabitants) i.e. the languages of Romania, Albania, Morocco, China, Ukraine, Philippines, Moldova, Poland, perhaps only if in centre-north Italy where the 85 % of them is;
e) *perhaps* the regional italic languages, but only where in active use if we're able to make such a geolocation.
Sources: http://www.insegnareonline.com/istanze/interlinguismo/insegnamento-ls-scuola-italia for a-c, http://ssai.interno.it/download/allegati1/amelio_dati-popolazione_straniera_residente_in_italia_-_22_set_2011_-_testo_integrale%5B1%5D.pdf for d.
In https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector/Design/Interlanguage_links#Issues_found I read "All the (main) languages of the same *family* should be shown in it", this would solve (b) and most of (a); I also read "Include minor languages from the user region" but this is not currently possible because we only consider *country*.
Note how Nnapulitano and sicilianu are not in any of a-c, they can be safely removed; Ελληνικά, català, furlan, hrvatski, slovenščina are in (c), but are only relevant in very limited territories even if we include the margin of error in geolocation for Slovene and Croatian (I doubt Greek??) users, they should probably not be displayed; Spanish, Romanian and Albanese are at the top of several points, so they can safely be added.
Version: master
Severity: enhancement
See Also:
http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/ticket/7099
http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/ticket/7100
http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/ticket/7101
http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/ticket/7102
https://github.com/wikimedia/jquery.uls/issues/134
http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/ticket/7947
http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/ticket/7946