2009/7/16 Robert Rohde rarohde@gmail.com:
Making many languages available is a good thing, but formatting the page to highlight a user declared preference would usually also be a good thing.
Agreed. I have recently prepared a simple JS script to hide other languages in the {{Picture of the day}} template. (You can test it at e.g. http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Neutrophil_with_anthrax_... – I plan to move it to Common.js soon, if no problems are reported.) I believe similar behavior should be introduced to many other templates. Obviously, in a perfect world, this would be a built-in behaviour of MediaWiki, but unfortunately, I don’t think it is really feasible in a foreseeable future…
-- [[cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec]]