Last modified: 2014-08-12 23:02:01 UTC
I'm testing Wikipedia V1.1 for Android. It recognizes my language setting, so it displays Korean Wikipedia at first. Great! But when I switch the language, the search window at the top still sends my query on Korean Wikipedia. I found the switching of the language is for the current article but for project such as en, ko, or ja. Then how can I change the project for search? I'd like to call 'language setting' rather than 'other language version of an article'. I think search windows provide a list of language setting buttons.
If your referring to the "Read in" feature then yes. That doesn't change any of your language preferences. It simply shows you the article in a different language without changing your default Wikipedia nor your search language. Were prototyping some changes to simplify this here : http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector_Mobile Take a look and let us know what you think
I love the ULSM planning. And I also thought that if someone change the language of "Read in", possibly we can assume he would like to search at the new language mode switched in. When you click an interlink at a browser at the desktop computer, you will arrive the project of the selected language. If you search a term, it means it search it on the switched project. If it can display search language at the search box, it need to repaint the language selected.
(In reply to comment #2) > I love the ULSM planning. > > And I also thought that if someone change the language of "Read in", > possibly we can assume he would like to search at the new language mode > switched in. I'd hate that actually. I love using the read in to just read that one article in another language and then going about to what i was doing. > When you click an interlink at a browser at the desktop computer, you will > arrive the project of the selected language. If you search a term, it means it > search it on the switched project. I've always found this super annoying as i've had to navigate backgrounds to where i was just to keep on moving. Either way though .. were going to be tinkering with this in future version.
Hi Ryu, thanks for your input. You do have a point that the current behavior is non-intuitive, and also doesn't precisely match the desktop behavior. However, we are targeting the behavior of users who on the desktop could keep multiple tabs open for different languages, meaning it is easy to return to the first tab to continue searching in the main language. So far, there was one person beside you who complained about this. At present, we think that most users would prefer to keep searching in their main language. Maybe explaining this somewhere in the app would make this better?
> Maybe explaining this somewhere in the app would make this better? If we have to explain this in the app then we've failed at making it intuitive.
Hi again, I just realized we never answered your question. In the current Android app, you need to go to More => Settings => Language to change the overall language. That will allow you to search in that language. We are changing this to make it match the desktop behavior and also to make language switching easier. But don't expect to see that in the app right away.
Tomasz set this to high priority two years ago (2012-02-24) - does this still reflect priorities?
I found you developed the 'Language Setting' and I am now enjoying. I downloaded it of 2.0-r-2014008-07 on Play Store. I think you can mark this with 'resolved'. Thanks.
