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Set the language variant of the user interface according to geolocation, for relevant languages
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The Portuguese Wikipedia is always shown by default using European Portuguese (pt) for the interface language. It makes sense to use Brazilian Portuguese (pt-br) when people access the site from Brazil.

This can be useful also for other languages, such as English (British English), Chinese (Traditional for Hong Kong and Taiwan), etc.

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Taiwania_Justo mentioned this in T224701: Enable the "content language variant" functionality on the preference to the multilingual sites such as the Commons and Meta-Wiki.Jun 15 2019, 1:12 PM
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I'd be very against using en-gb for british people unless the translation issues are sorted. Me and Reedy being one of few is a good thing currently. Some of the issues have lasted months. See T286901: Explore options to avoid people translating into wrong language for some history.

Pcoombe added a comment.Jul 8 2022, 4:30 PM

Note that en.wikipedia currently discourages people from setting their interface language as en-GB or en-CA, due to the fact these miss out on many local message customisations (see village pump discussion, and the messages in Special:Preferences). I don't know if other projects have similar issues.

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