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Separate "Worldwide" region into "Worldwide" and "Other" #499

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In Wikimedia projects, the ULS separates languages into regions. At the top, there are suggested languages (dynamically chosen for each reader/user), and then the section for "Worldwide" languages, and then the various regions of the world.

However, since language-data groups constructed languages like Esperanto, Kotava and Lojban into the "Worldwide" category (because they don't have a geographic center), this leads to the odd situation where tiny constructed languages like Kotava and Lojban are grouped together with huge global languages like English, Spanish and Portuguese, and shown at the top of the list.

Therefore, I think it would make more sense to create a new "region", simply called "Other", that the ULS can display at the bottom of the region list. In addition to constructed languages, this region could perhaps also contain extinct languages such as Gothic, Old English, Old Church Slavonic and others.

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