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copied!<p>Although you can use IP-based location detection (see <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/9143618/2016778">this answer</a>), but it's neither reliable nor makes you wiser about user's preferred languages (e.g. users travelling abroad, etc.). </p> <p>Websites with heavy international traffic use various parameters to decide in which language the content should be presented. Some of these parameters:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.4" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><code>Accept-Language</code></a> HTTP header which is discussed in detail <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/3335420/2016778">here</a>.</li> <li>Values of properties <code>window.navigator.language</code> or <code>window.navigator.userLanguage</code> (for IE)</li> <li>IP-based location detection data checked against CLDR to provide you with common languages in that territory.</li> </ul> <p>MediaWiki extension, <code>UniversalLanguageSelector</code>, uses these factors as well as stored user preferences to provide a list of common languages for each user. See <a href="https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/extensions/UniversalLanguageSelector.git;a=blob;f=resources/js/ext.uls.init.js;h=b449c7a5f5c3e236a3688f0c822a0735282039e0;hb=HEAD#l73" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><code>getFrequentLanguageList()</code></a>.</p> <p>W3C also has some <a href="http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-when-lang-neg" rel="nofollow noreferrer">recommendations</a>.</p>

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