jiru
commented
8 years ago This might possibly speed things up
Any other benefits? At the moment, speed isn’t much of a problem. What’s the problem with having all the possible languages in the dropdown?
I’m not rejecting your idea, but I think we need to identify more clearly the problem you’re trying to solve. If we don’t know the problem, we don’t know if we solved it. If we don’t know whether we solved it, we can never close this ticket.
If you’re trying to start a discussion, maybe the mailing list is more appropriate.
ckjpn
sacredceltic
Perhaps it would be a good idea to not include all possible languages on the dropdown select language menu for every member every time it is used. (In the search form, when the flag is clicked and when the translate button is clicked.)
This might possibly speed things up, especially for search results and pages with 20 to 100 sentences, since the dropdown select menu is included 2 times for each sentence (flag and translate button), and 2 times for the search form. (This means a page of results with 100 sentences has this code 202 times in the page.)
One possible idea would be to have all languages with fewer than 100 sentences not be displayed by default, but only displayed to members who opted in with a choice in their settings. We are getting very few contributions in the languages with fewer than 100 sentences, and not really very many in languages with fewer than 500 sentences
I don't know if this would help, or if it would be too hard to implement. However, it might be an idea to consider. As the number of languages grow, it's likely that we will have many more than 283 languages in the future, so coming up with some kind of solution will likely be something that eventually needs to be considered.
If you chose 100 as the break point, then only 140 lines would be in the select menu, rather than 287.
\ 140 languages have over 100 contributions English, Esperanto, Turkish, Italian, Russian, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Hungarian, Hebrew, Berber, Polish, Macedonian, Finnish, Dutch, Chinese (Mandarin), Marathi, Swedish, Ukrainian, Danish, Bulgarian, Serbian, Interlingua, Czech, Arabic, Low Saxon, Lithuanian, Persian, Latin, Klingon, Lojban, Greek, Tagalog, Norwegian (Bokmål), Icelandic, Tatar, Hindi, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Toki Pona, Uyghur, Belarusian, Romanian, Catalan, Ido, Azerbaijani, Interlingue, Galician, Meadow Mari, Shanghainese, Croatian, Cantonese, Kotava, Occitan, Basque, Korean, Estonian, Kazakh, Ilocano, Chavacano, Slovak, Afrikaans, Bengali, Literary Chinese, Urdu, Malay, Irish, Volapük, Kapampangan, Latvian, Chuvash, Old East Slavic, Cebuano, Cornish, Khmer, Central Dusun, Yiddish, Breton, Kalmyk, Khasi, Armenian, Yakut, Old Prussian, Upper Sorbian, Zaza, Lower Sorbian, Malayalam, Norwegian (Nynorsk), Georgian, Slovenian, Algerian Arabic, Uzbek, Piedmontese, Scottish Gaelic, Guarani, Thai, Albanian, Mongolian, Egyptian Arabic, Kurdish, Swahili, unknown, North Moluccan Malay, Welsh, Bosnian, Maori, Coastal Kadazan, Ottoman Turkish, Waray, Crimean Tatar, Kashubian, Ho, Tamil, Javanese, Faroese, Chukchi, Turkmen, Awadhi, Quechua, Ossetian, Nahuatl, Amharic, Ancient Greek, Punjabi (Eastern), Kannada, Hawaiian, Novial, Emilian, Maltese, Xhosa, Bashkir, Old English, Sanskrit, Quenya, Frisian, Asturian, Kyrgyz, Picard
\ 143 languages have fewer than 100 contributions Shuswap, Nogai, Telugu, Choctaw, Ladin, Hill Mari, Sundanese, Tok Pisin, Tigrinya, Luxembourgish, Gujarati, Sumerian, Zulu, Tajik, Mambae, Pipil, Ladino, Hausa, Tibetan, Karachay-Balkar, Walloon, Lingua Franca Nova, Laz, Somali, Haitian Creole, Hiligaynon, Guerrero Nahuatl, Shona, Pangasinan, Bhojpuri, Lingala, Central Huasteca Nahuatl, Sindarin, Lao, Sinhala, Burmese, Iraqi Arabic, CycL, Punjabi (Western), Garhwali, Nigerian Fulfulde, Malagasy, Yoruba, Fiji Hindi, Old Tupi, Nepali, Livonian, Niuean, North Levantine Arabic, Pennsylvania German, Dungan, Chamorro, Abkhaz, Kölsch, Lakota, Ewe, Kekchi (Q'eqchi'), Cherokee, Khakas, Pashto, Navajo, Chinyanja, Northern Sami, Romansh, Tarifit, Greenlandic, Udmurt, Ngeq, Erzya, Kumyk, Ainu, Tongan, Sicilian, Kinyarwanda, Wolof, Aragonese, Middle English, Venetian, Orizaba Nahuatl, Mohawk, Lombard, Võro, Gilbertese, Tuvaluan, Chechen, Tuvinian, Bambara, Gagauz, Friulian, Kamba, Buryat, Mon, Juhuri (Judeo-Tat), Papiamento, Romani, Samoan, Karakalpak, Middle French, Tetun, Scots, Manx, Sango, Pulaar, Min Nan Chinese, Southern Altai, Adyghe, Fijian, Hmong Njua, Bodo, Moksha, Tsonga, Tagal Murut, Palatine German, Balinese, Sardinian, Iban, Keningau Murut, Corsican, Sindhi, Old Aramaic, Hakka Chinese, Aymara, Southern Sotho, Moroccan Arabic, Ojibwe, Palauan, Setswana, Swazi, Assyrian, Tokelauan, Umbundu, Assamese, Old Saxon, Old Norse, Odia (Oriya), Marshallese, Seychellois Creole, Cuyonon, Igbo, Urhobo, Louisiana Creole, Swiss German, Luganda
Perhaps you may think 100 is too high or too low a number for the break point.
When choosing a breaking point, remember that it's not uncommon for our regular contributors to contribute over 100 sentences a day. Even regular members who don't contribute much, often go over 10 sentences on any given day.
It would only take one or two translation sessions by a member for any language below the breaking point to move into the range of being on the regular select menu.