Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment-957747-20180112214558/@comment-3279487-20180115100053

Ursuul wrote: Why should it be alphabetically sorted? I know several Wikis that use templates to organize their interlanguage links by the quality of the content on each Wiki, & mine does too. This would destroy that.

I don't really get why would you do that since generally you either look for your native language or just take a look at others out of curiosity. But regardless of that, why any changes to interlanguage links would disrupt local templates? I saw too some wikis that use them rather then the simply add the links, but by using a template, aren't you basically forcing the inline version of the links? (e.g. ) So what does matter what order are they displayed in the footer if you don't display them in the footer in the first place?

Personally I don't like such templates because they actually don't "pair up" the pages, they just add inline links. I guess the mediawiki software "doesn't see" there are other language versions of that page if you place the links inline (so you cannot use them for possible features in the backend) and I also imagine that interlanguage bot don't work well with them.