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Currently, if a user isn't logged in, even if they have explicitly selected a variant from the drop-down menu on one page, the preference is lost as soon as they click on a link to navigate to a different page, and it falls back to the default.. This is a pretty poor user experience, especially since e.g. in the case of zhwiki, the default is a mix of unconverted Traditional and Simplified characters. **Possible mitigations** - Save the variant selection in a session or regular cookie - Automatically modify the URL of all internal links (wiki links, sidebar, search, etc.) to include variant information (e.g. if I'm viewing https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/維基百科, all link targets should use be prefixed with `https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/` rather than with `https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/`)

Currently, if a user isn't logged in, even if they have explicitly selected a variant from the drop-down menu on one page, the preference is lost as soon as they click on a link to navigate to a different page, and it falls back to the default.. This is a pretty poor user experience, especially since e.g. in the case of zhwiki, the default is a mix of unconverted Traditional and Simplified characters. This also happens on MobileFrontend, which may need to be fixed separately. **Possible mitigations** - Save the variant selection in a session or regular cookie - Automatically modify the URL of all internal links (wiki links, sidebar, search, etc.) to include variant information (e.g. if I'm viewing https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/維基百科, all link targets should use be prefixed with `https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/` rather than with `https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/`)

Currently, if a user isn't logged in, even if they have explicitly selected a variant from the drop-down menu on one page, the preference is lost as soon as they click on a link to navigate to a different page, and it falls back to the default.. This is a pretty poor user experience, especially since e.g. in the case of zhwiki, the default is a mix of unconverted Traditional and Simplified characters. This also happens on MobileFrontend, which may need to be fixed separately. **Possible mitigations** - Save the variant selection in a session or regular cookie - Automatically modify the URL of all internal links (wiki links, sidebar, search, etc.) to include variant information (e.g. if I'm viewing https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/維基百科, all link targets should use be prefixed with `https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/` rather than with `https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/`)