Language options is really extremely important for Wikimedia projects especially for Wikipedia. But I have a little suggestion is to add a banner at top of the articles like wikivoyage looks like, it helps the user to have a first image of the country or person or thing... Also, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:2014_main_page_redesign_proposal#Proposal_.2301:_Simple_Main_Page, User:Guy Macon proposed a new design of the main page, I personally strongly oppose to this design, how do you guys think of?

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Gabriel Lee, 13, Hong Kong

Student, Admin of wy/zh, beta

2014-02-27 14:59 GMT+08:00 Denis Jacquerye <moyogo@gmail.com>:

To their credit, they do have a World icon, in large view it has
"English" next to it.

Zooming shows they use Helvetica.
http://weare1910.com/sites/default/files/project/wikipedia_new_desktop_full.jpg

There is no evidence all serif fonts are worse for dyslexics.
Some some serif fonts perform adequately.
You can't throw away all serif fonts just because some perform poorly,
unfortunately it’s not that simple.
http://www.luzrello.com/Publications_files/assets2013.pdf

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Kaity Hammerstein
<khammerstein@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Here's their original post - bigger pics and explanation
> http://blog.weare1910.com/post/75576312730/a-readable-wikipedia
> Because they have no constraints, they could have done so much better! Not
> very creative or inspiring
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Brandon Harris <bharris@wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>>         Oh, joy.  Another group of people who don’t understand that the
>> multiple languages thing is Wikipedia’s *most important feature* so they of
>> course scrap it entirely.
>>
>>         I can’t zoom in on the photos but that looks like a serif font for
>> everything, so I guess dyslexics aren’t supposed to use this, either.
>>
>>         Design is easy when you don’t have to worry about real-world
>> constraints.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Feb 26, 2014, at 10:23 AM, Jon Robson <jdlrobson@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > This showed up in my Google alerts. This one looks a lot like the
>> > existing mobile website... :)
>> >
>> >
>> > http://www.psfk.com/2014/02/wikipedia-design-layout-change.html/wikipedia-redesign-1910-2#!xCd2D
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