A nice idea: to pull ULS common languages from the Babel box.
This is already done in Wikidata for typing labels and descriptions, and should be done in ULS, too.
See also T26193: Highlight interwiki for the language of homewiki of a user which has a global account, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector/Design/Interlanguage_links/Talk_archive_March_2014%E2%80%93April_2016#Default_language_selection
| Subject | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Show languages from the Babel box on the user page | mediawiki/extensions/UniversalLanguageSelector | master | +32 -2 |
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | Amire80 | T135371 Pull common languages from the user's Babel box | |||
| Open | None | T104912 Provide API for (likely) language preference | |||
| Open | None | T122001 Allow manual customisation of user language preferences guess | |||
| Open | None | T148005 BabelUserLanguageLookup is in Wikibase, should be in Babel | |||
| Resolved | Amire80 | T164187 Cache Babel user language queries |
Note that #babel does not provide languages on most wikis, due to wmgBabelMainCategory defaulting to false.
Babel should be used as a kind of "the user has asked for these languages so they should be included unconditionally". In addition to those languages there could be other languages that use a completely different ranking mechanism.
Note that some users have only a page at meta, so check that user page and not only the user page at the local wiki. (Perhaps done throgh an api call, like T141084: Babel definitions for an user should be made available through the api)
Note that some users have more Babel-entries than the number of listed languages in the CLL gadget.
Change 309827 had a related patch set uploaded (by Amire80):
Show languages from the Babel box on the user page
I committed a very simple patch, which is similar to the implementation in Wikibase repo, but even simpler. I am not sure that it takes care of the edge cases mentioned by @jeblad and @Tgr. If anybody has a handy environment that is closer to A Real Wikimedia Project, I'll appreciate if you could test there. Thanks.
I can try to create a test environment later this week, if necessary, but it seems pretty stright forward to me.
Code for caching of Babel-languages should be moved from the Wikibase extension and to the Babel extension. This is not really a part of this change, but will have implications on how this is done.
T148005: BabelUserLanguageLookup is in Wikibase, should be in Babel
Change 309827 abandoned by Nikerabbit:
Show languages from the Babel box on the user page
Reason:
Idle for three months.
Change 309827 restored by Amire80:
Show languages from the Babel box on the user page
Reason:
Trying to revive this and address the issues.
The current patch should become usable after merging the upstream Babel caching patch.
Change 309827 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/UniversalLanguageSelector@master] Show languages from the Babel box on the user page
Mass-moving all items tagged for MediaWiki 1.30.0-wmf.3, as that was never released; instead, we're using -wmf.4.
This is deployed. It works in English, Polish, Finnish, and Catalan Wikipedias, but not in Hebrew, possibly because wmgBabelMainCategory is not set, as @Tgr suggested. I'll create a separate issue for that.
Resolved in the code, but not fully resolved in production. Many wikis still don't actually have Babel fully enabled. This will be resolved later today with https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/358007/ .