According to https://www.mediawiki.org/?oldid=944533#Confusing_selection_of_languages :
Visiting [[no:Oslo]] with the eetension turned on I got
(af) Afrikaans (am) አማርኛ (an) aragonés (ang) Ænglisc (ar) العربية (arc) ܐܪܡܝܐ (en) English (nn) norsk (nynorsk) (se) sámegiella
The first 6 were clearly added to reach the number of 9 interwikis, but they should come after the common languages currently at the bottom.
Version: master
Severity: enhancement
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Invalid | None | T98348 Implement the Wikimedia Foundation Call to Action 2015 | |||
| Invalid | None | T98358 WMF to integrate, consolidate, and pause or stop stalled initiatives | |||
| Open | None | T76456 Language Engineering tracker of trackers (tracking) | |||
| Resolved | Amire80 | T18888 Make the user's preferred languages more prominent in interlanguage links list | |||
| Open | Feature | None | T18962 Provide a non-JavaScript means of including a "Complete list" link in the interlanguage sidebar | ||
| Open | Feature | None | T66793 Make compact interlanguage links default | ||
| Declined | None | T65271 [Compact links] When common languages are not enough, "fillers" should come after |
Currently we sort the languages by their language codes before displaying them. This is consistent with the current design i.e. languages appear sorted by their language codes if the beta feature is disabled.
I don't think a lot of people will object to the sorted languages. It's easier to search a language and maintains design consistency.
Personally, if I enable the feature, I expect those to be common languages and when they aren't I get confused; so I'd prefer the fillers to be separated in some way. But I see your point, I'm unsure.
(In reply to Niharika from comment #3)
Have we decided what course to take on this?
I think it depends on whether more prioritisation methods are added. If we were to add all the methods asked by (some) users, I agree things would get messy. :)