Talk:Universal Language Selector/Compact Language Links/2020

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This is the feedback page for the Compact Language Links feature.

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All feedback is welcome. You can write in any language.

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Setting own sortation

Latest comment: 4 years ago9 comments4 people in discussion

I came to that page as I thought that languages were now sorted randomly! I'm confused and not used to seeing them sorted in the way I see them now.

If the list of languages can never be alphabetically sorted, and if admins dictate how languages should be sorted for us, why can't I make my own sortation? There are many languages I like to see next to each other due to similarity and comparison without needing to open another popup, and the first listed languages aren't necessarily the ones I want to set for my browser. Esperfulmo (talk) 19:05, 19 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

You don't have to set them in your browser. Every time you click a language, it will be automatically added to the list of languages that will be shown in the initial compact list. Amir E. Aharoni {{🌎🌍🌏}} 06:34, 20 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

You obviously didn't get what I wrote. Esperfulmo (talk) 10:59, 20 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

Would this be related to phab:T257625? Trizek_(WMF) (talk) 10:06, 22 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

~~I can't confirm that, because~~ from my mobile browser, they are alphabetically sorted, but from the desktop browser, ~~I need to compare later.~~ (Update: they appear randomly from desktop)

However, it's not my desire to see them sorted in a way that administrators or developers think fits for me. No one asked me or considered my opinion or preferences. I just wish to see languages either alphabetically sorted, like in the past, or allow me to make my own order, the same way we are allowed to have a custom CSS. Esperfulmo (talk) 15:41, 22 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

Mahmudmasri is right. Right now English WP sorts the languages like this

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German WP sorts like this

Which have absolutely nothing to do with my user pattern and does not make any sense at all. I also saw something like this some days ago, but neglected it as I am getting used to the language selector does not work well. It sort of neclects which languages I click. This is the silliest to date though. Dyveldi (talk) 21:27, 25 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

As far as I know, it's a bug in core MediaWiki and not related to Universal Language Selector: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T257625 Amir E. Aharoni {{🌎🌍🌏}} 07:27, 26 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

OK, thanks Amire. Could we, at least, have the option to show all languages code-alphabetically, as they used to be in the past, and leave them with the current defaults? Esperfulmo (talk) 18:57, 26 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

If someone did something to restore the code-alphabet sorting, thank you, I noticed it today, but if not, then I have to point out that I notice it and that is a lot better, at least for people like me. Esperfulmo (talk) 22:12, 28 July 2020 (UTC)Reply