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**Summary** There isn't a way to share a link to an article that is language agnostic. I want to share a single link to a group greater than one person that will automagically direct to the article (if available) in the recipients preferred language. **Description** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goat will take a visitor to the English version of the Wikipedia article about Goats. If I send that link to another individual they have to be 1) fluent enough in English to understand the content and/or 2) Knowledgable enough to discover that there may be a version of the article in a different language (UniversalLanguageSelector in the sidebar as an example of how one might discover other language versions). I would like to share a link to knowledge about Goats that does not predetermine the language. For argument: wikipedia.org/wiki/Goat **Note**: The individual who submitted this task is not a programmer. I do not know if this is feasible. I also want a pony. The rough logic would go, Is this user logged in to Wikipedia? If yes, what is their language preference?* Show the Goat article if available in that language, fallback languages if possible, and (ugh) English as a last resort. Is the user logged out? Then take a guess via browser settings, location, or some other known identifier (or combination vis confidence scoring). Show the article in that language if available. Fallback to english as a last resort. To keep this from causing false-positives/confusion, perhaps a subdomain could be used for purposefully sharing links of this nature. An idea from @Trizek-WMF would be something like share.wikipedia.org/Goat Perhaps something similar to Special:MyLanguage for pages marked for translation? This task is to provoke discussion, so please poke more holes in my already leaky idea. :) *Yes, I realize language preferences are per-wiki unless using global preferences (Thanks to @Johan for pointing this out).

**Summary** There isn't a way to share a link to an article that is language agnostic. I want to share a single link to a group greater than one person that will automagically direct to the article (if available) in the recipients preferred language. **Description** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goat will take a visitor to the English version of the Wikipedia article about Goats. If I send that link to another individual they have to be 1) fluent enough in English to understand the content and/or 2) Knowledgable enough to discover that there may be a version of the article in a different language (UniversalLanguageSelector in the sidebar as an example of how one might discover other language versions). I would like to share a link to knowledge about Goats that does not predetermine the language. For argument: wikipedia.org/wiki/Goat **Note**: The individual who submitted this task is not a programmer. I do not know if this is feasible. I also want a pony. The rough logic would go, Is this user logged in to Wikipedia? If yes, what is their language preference?* Show the Goat article if available in that language, fallback languages if possible, and (ugh) English as a last resort. Is the user logged out? Then take a guess via browser settings, location, or some other known identifier (or combination vis confidence scoring). Show the article in that language if available. Fallback to english as a last resort. To keep this from causing false-positives/confusion, perhaps a subdomain could be used for purposefully sharing links of this nature. An idea from @Trizek-WMF would be something like share.wikipedia.org/Goat Perhaps something similar to Special:MyLanguage for pages marked for translation? Perhaps something similar to what the wikipedia.org portal does to determine language? This task is to provoke discussion, so please poke more holes in my already leaky idea. :) *Yes, I realize language preferences are per-wiki unless using global preferences (Thanks to @Johan for pointing this out).

**Summary** There isn't a way to share a link to an article that is language agnostic. I want to share a single link to a group greater than one person that will automagically direct to the article (if available) in the recipients preferred language. **Description** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goat will take a visitor to the English version of the Wikipedia article about Goats. If I send that link to another individual they have to be 1) fluent enough in English to understand the content and/or 2) Knowledgable enough to discover that there may be a version of the article in a different language (UniversalLanguageSelector in the sidebar as an example of how one might discover other language versions). I would like to share a link to knowledge about Goats that does not predetermine the language. For argument: wikipedia.org/wiki/Goat **Note**: The individual who submitted this task is not a programmer. I do not know if this is feasible. I also want a pony. The rough logic would go, Is this user logged in to Wikipedia? If yes, what is their language preference?* Show the Goat article if available in that language, fallback languages if possible, and (ugh) English as a last resort. Is the user logged out? Then take a guess via browser settings, location, or some other known identifier (or combination vis confidence scoring). Show the article in that language if available. Fallback to english as a last resort. To keep this from causing false-positives/confusion, perhaps a subdomain could be used for purposefully sharing links of this nature. An idea from @Trizek-WMF would be something like share.wikipedia.org/Goat Perhaps something similar to Special:MyLanguage for pages marked for translation? Perhaps something similar to what the wikipedia.org portal does to determine language? This task is to provoke discussion, so please poke more holes in my already leaky idea. :) *Yes, I realize language preferences are per-wiki unless using global preferences (Thanks to @Johan for pointing this out).