Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment-957747-20180112214558/@comment-126761-20180113012544

@KockaAdmiralac: true - I've edited the post to reflect this affects the footer too. There was already a partially enforced order in the footer (EN, DE, ES, RU, PL, FR, IT, PT, followed by wikitext order), and this was inconsistent with the article header links (which solely used wikitext order).

We've updated both so they're more predictable - both use alphabetical language code ordering. Especially when the list gets long, it can be hard to quickly spot your own language if there's no clear ordering to the links. If you speak French, I don't think it would generally matter a great deal whether the content of the French wiki is better or worse than the German one - what matters is whether it exists.

This also means you don't need to perfect an order within the wikitext, since it's all dealt with automatically - meaning a bit less article maintenance is needed.

As always, we're open to feedback.