Incomplete list of languages

[ftyers]

Current behaviour:

• I navigate to https://lib.reviews/
• I can't see anything in the language I'm interested in contributing in
• I scroll to the bottom
• There is a list of languages, I click on "change language"
• The language stays the same

Expected behaviour:

• When I click on "change language" it should offer me a choice of languages, and the choice to request a new language

[eloquence]

You should be seeing this at the bottom of the page:

When you select one of the languages from that list and press "Change language", it should change the language. Is that not what you're seeing?

[ftyers]

@eloquence no, it only works for the languages in the dropdown. Not other languages. It's not clear how I can submit content in a language which is not in the randomised-predetermined list.

It would be good to be able to choose what language my reviews are in. Or alternatively, I guess, what language they aren't in ??? Like I've had to choose this localisation, but I'm not submitting my reviews in the same language. I guess that would also work?

[ftyers]

I found a list of supported languages here: http://www-01.sil.org/iso639-3/download.asp

At least these should be supported. Definitely more should be, but perhaps the communities that want to contribute reviews in those languages should get checked by ISO first?

[eloquence]

Hi @ftyers, it's not a random list -- it's languages we have complete UI translations for. Right now we make new languages available once a translation is complete, so users working in that language can also fully understand the environment and aren't excluded or confused based on lack of English language awareness.

I'm open to revisiting that policy, but this is how we've done it so far, and it's an approach used by other community projects as well (notably Wikimedia's approval process for new language: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_proposal_policy#Requisites_for_final_approval ).

The process for translation is described here: https://lib.reviews/team/developers/post/013b873d-7f3e-4cd5-9d88-ce6c37482c73

I do think it's a good idea to link to that page (or another similar page) in the footer in some way.