Request expansion of introduction to special page LanguageStats

• dropdown box: possibly. Don't know how, may put it on the feature request list with a low priority. In the sidebar menu, the language code is automagically added for the user language.
• no limit, I guess. Any issues?

Low priority for the dropdown box is fine. If we had a link on the special page to a help paragraph about the page then we wouldn’t need the dropdown box at all. Or if it is possible to add a tooltip saying 'Click on Supported Languages in the menu bar to find a language code' then that would also be fine. The people that this could help are visitors to the site, including potential translators and potential new projects, who may not know how to find out a language code.

I'll add a few links on Special:SupportedLanguages.

 Done

Handy.

Is it possible and efficient to add tooltips to the column headers on the table? Then the information in the above draft would go onto the tooltip. Or we could have shorter explanations in the tooltip, as long as there is a link on the page to a longer explanation somewhere else.

There was an issue with a long tooltip message on Welsh Wikipedia, reported on 15 October 2008. The problem happened using Firefox version 2.0.0.7 and using Linux. Here is a link to a screenshot of the message Tooltip-preview ("Preview your changes. Please use this before publishing.") being truncated.

• grumble* Firefox 2.x is *very* outdated.

I wouldn't have raised the issue if you hadn't asked. There is now a Welsh version of the latest Firefox version 3.whatever, so I agree that the particular issue above is probably irrelevant. However, the Welsh version of Firefox wasn't always the most up-to-date; the latest Welsh version used to lag quite a way behind the latest English releases, a situation which I assume applied to other languages as well.

Anyway, if we assume that a tooltip can be of any length, then is it possible and efficient to add tooltips to the column headers?

Yeah, can be done. Please make a proposal for the texts; they cannot contain links or HTML entities. If possible, they shouldn't be translatewiki.net centric, but generic.

Done already. mwr:66471.

Thanks - tips look good. On the tip for 'outdated', we should, I think, add 'or because a translator has marked it outdated' at the end.

 Done mwr:66520.

I think that it would be quite useful to have a note about delays in updating statistics, depending on how a message has been translated – on FAQ or some other appropriate help page.

FAQ is probably best. The only ones suffering from the lag are those that are (almost) complete, and they already know.

FAQ it is then. Can someone who knows how the delay comes about put something about it on FAQ?