Topic on Talk:Universal Language Selector/Compact Language Links

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.

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.

You obviously didn't get what I wrote.

Would this be related to phab:T257625?

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.

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

• Deutsch
• Français
• Español
• Русский
• Italiano
• 日本語
• Nederlands
• Polski
• Português
• 中文
• Svenska
• فارسی
• עברית
• Türkçe
• Magyar
• Suomi
• العربية
• Tiếng Việt
• Norsk bokmål
• Українська
• 한국어
• Čeština
• Српски / srpski
• Bahasa Indonesia
• Български
• Asturianu
• भोजपुरी
• বাংলা
• Cymraeg
• हिन्दी
• Latviešu
• ไทย
• 吴语
• 粵語
• Oʻzbekcha/ўзбекча
• Euskara
• Bahasa Melayu
• Dansk

Edit

German WP sorts like this

• English
• Français
• Español
• Русский
• Italiano
• 日本語
• Nederlands
• Polski
• Português
• 中文
• Svenska
• فارسی
• עברית
• Türkçe
• Magyar
• Suomi
• العربية
• Tiếng Việt
• Norsk bokmål
• Українська
• 한국어
• Čeština
• Српски / srpski
• Bahasa Indonesia
• Български
• Asturianu
• भोजपुरी
• বাংলা
• Cymraeg
• हिन्दी
• Latviešu
• ไทย
• 吴语
• 粵語
• Oʻzbekcha/ўзбекча
• Euskara
• Bahasa Melayu
• Dansk

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.

As far as I know, it's a bug in core MediaWiki and not related to Universal Language Selector: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T257625

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?

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.