[Wikipedia-l] Maybe "portal page" was a poor choice of words

[Stephen Gilbert]

--- elian <elian at gmx.li> wrote:
> Axel Boldt <axelboldt at yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> > > But what's the argument against our doing so
> properly,
> > > by looking at what the browser itself says is
> the preferred language?
> > 
> > I think this is the correct approach. The
> browser's language preference
> > decides which Wikipedia's main page they get. If
> there is no Wikipedia
> > in that language, or if they don't specify a
> preference, they get
> > English. 
> 
> So we continue our current procedure to hide the
> other language wikipedias
> from the user. It doesn't mind that I speak five
> languages, I have to be
> happy with the German wikipedia because it's point
> one in my browser
> settings. And if my Spanish friends use my computer
> for surfing, they get
> German, too, even if they speak no German at all.
> And the Japanese student
> at the German university library computer gets
> German, too, even if he
> would be a lot more interested in the japanese
> wikipedia.
> 
> Sorry, I can't see any additional value from such a
> front page.
> 
> greetings,
> elian

I'm thinking that you would get the German front page,
but a row of links at the top would give you the
option of visiting the other language options.

It would be similiar to what we have now, except you
would get the front page in your prefered language
rather than English.

Stephen G.

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