Nikki added a comment.
This catches me out a lot. I'm used to using the language codes to refer to sites (it's in the URL, it's used when making a link to another wiki, it's even shown right next to the sitelink), so I expect the language code to also select the right site when adding sitelinks. It does work for most of them and when I come across one where it doesn't, it often takes several attempts to select the right site (I press tab before I can stop myself). Preferring language codes would mean there is always a short and predictable way to select any site, regardless of how many similarly-named languages there are. Preferring language names like it does now makes some sites harder to select than others: For some, you have to either type enough of the name to make it the first result or explicitly select something other than the first result (nowiki is a good example), whereas for other sites you can just enter the language code and press tab. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135826 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Nikki Cc: Nikki, Aklapper, revi, YFdyh000, Zppix, D3r1ck01, Izno, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Mbch331 _______________________________________________ Wikidata-bugs mailing list Wikidata-bugs@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-bugs
