Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment-957747-20180112214558/@comment-28083312-20180115104425

Leviathan 89 wrote: 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. Again, that ties back into what I mentioned earlier with the Russians. Back in the day when the Russian Wiki was low quality (for us) it was lower in the order, & they knew not to bother reading the pages in Russian since they could get more raw info on the English pages. As Russian pages improved in general we put it higher in the order. Leviathan 89 wrote: 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? We don’t use it that way, the way you describe is how Star Wars does it & so the links don’t show up in the footer or header dropdown. For them it wouldn’t matter at all, but for pages like this, where our template isn’t actually inline but the normal type of interlanguage link, so we rely on the backend ordering the links by instance on the page to produce our desired order. We’ve had our way of ordering since before the header update, back when we used the Interlanguage Flags JavaScript snippet to produce a similar dropdown. Leviathan 89 wrote: 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. I agree with you here, which is why we don’t use that method of interlanguage linking.