What about having a link to the local language wikipedia near the English Wikipedia link by detecting IP address. For example, with this feature if I go to wikipedia.org from Kerala, I will see a link to വിക്കിപീഡിയ near "English 5 188 000+ articles"
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@ഏത്തപഴം Currently, the languages around the globe do change, but they change is based on your browser language, and not your IP address. The reason for this is that a user's browser language is better representation of a users preferred language than their location. If your browser is set to Spanish, you can be sure that the user knows how to read Spanish, but just because I'm in Spain doesn't necessarily mean I can read Spanish.
Should we consider putting the accept languages first, then geo-located language(s), and then the rest of the top 10?
It's certainly a possibility but we'd need to do some testing to be sure we get the results that we're expecting; and there is a bit of a privacy concern as well. But, if we can generalize the IP address to a region/state/country, etc that might work.
Web broswers send a language option through HTTP.
Hi, please see this reply to your same comment on another topic for this page.
User:DTankersley (WMF), geo-location needn't come at the expense of the user's settings. Indeed, we *must* respect what the OS/browser tells us, but, knowing as we do that for large sections of the population outside the west, those settings *aren't* representative of the user's actual wishes, we should also try to Do The Right Thing using geo-location.
As you say "we'd need to do some testing", can you offer a timeline for when such testing could be done? The current feature should certainly be considered incomplete without geolocation.
Hi - I've posted a reply to this similar question here.