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== Option C for widget placement ==

You might just be giving it as an example, but I wanted to point out some potential problems with this choice: 

First, the large size and placement of Option C ([[:File:ULS Placement Option C.png|mockup]]) is not super great in the context of user expectations. Selecting a chrome language that is different than the content of the site is a very advanced and perhaps even unexpected option. Generally users expect that the two will match, and that they should visit a different site to view a wiki in another language). Option C is rather prominent placement for such an option, and it's a place that is not usually associated with language preferences. 

Additionally, there already a great many icons which appear in that space, including:

* Featured status
* Good Article status
* Protection status
* User rights (for NS2 and NS3)
* [[Extension:OnlineStatusBar|Online status]] (again, not NS0)
* And an infinite number of others, mostly placed there by templates

As these icons tend to use absolute positioning, placement of the language selector there would likely be pushed far to the left. <font style="font-family:Palatino, Georgia, serif;">[[User:Steven (WMF)|Steven Walling (WMF)]]&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;[[User talk:Steven (WMF)|<span style="color: #8080b0">talk</span>]]</font> 17:12, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
:Thanks for the comments.
:The idea with the Option C was to create a general "page settings" which is not exclusively used for language settings (as opposed to Options A and B). It may also include settings from other extensions or even tools related to content such as exporting to PDF.
:This specific approach has several implications (such as the problem with icons that you mention). But we wanted to observe from users whether they found intuitive to look for language settings inside some kind of page settings or they need them to be more prominent. [[User:Pginer|Pginer]] ([[User talk:Pginer|talk]]) 21:49, 22 May 2012 (UTC)