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Setting own sortation

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Esperfulmo (talkcontribs)

I came to that page as I thought that languages were now sorted randomly! I'm confused and not used to seeing them sorted in the way I see them now.

If the list of languages can never be alphabetically sorted, and if admins dictate how languages should be sorted for us, why can't I make my own sortation? There are many languages I like to see next to each other due to similarity and comparison without needing to open another popup, and the first listed languages aren't necessarily the ones I want to set for my browser.

Amire80 (talkcontribs)

You don't have to set them in your browser. Every time you click a language, it will be automatically added to the list of languages that will be shown in the initial compact list.

Esperfulmo (talkcontribs)

You obviously didn't get what I wrote.

Trizek (WMF) (talkcontribs)
Esperfulmo (talkcontribs)

I can't confirm that, because from my mobile browser, they are alphabetically sorted, but from the desktop browser, I need to compare later. (Update: they appear randomly from desktop)

However, it's not my desire to see them sorted in a way that administrators or developers think fits for me. No one asked me or considered my opinion or preferences. I just wish to see languages either alphabetically sorted, like in the past, or allow me to make my own order, the same way we are allowed to have a custom CSS.

Dyveldi (talkcontribs)

Mahmudmasri is right. Right now English WP sorts the languages like this

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German WP sorts like this

Which have absolutely nothing to do with my user pattern and does not make any sense at all. I also saw something like this some days ago, but neglected it as I am getting used to the language selector does not work well. It sort of neclects which languages I click. This is the silliest to date though.

Amire80 (talkcontribs)
Esperfulmo (talkcontribs)

OK, thanks Amire. Could we, at least, have the option to show all languages code-alphabetically, as they used to be in the past, and leave them with the current defaults?

Esperfulmo (talkcontribs)

If someone did something to restore the code-alphabet sorting, thank you, I noticed it today, but if not, then I have to point out that I notice it and that is a lot better, at least for people like me.

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