On 7 June 2010 23:16, Howie Fung hfung@wikimedia.org wrote:
So in terms of a path forward, here is a proposal:
- Immediate revert so that all languages are exposed by default.
- We will continue work on a compromise solution. The current
interface is probably not perfect, so we’ll be continuing to look for ways to improve it. We welcome your ideas -- please direct them to [2] so we can keep track. 3. We will A/B-test proposed solutions against the default. We'll involve the community to design the A/B test (e.g., what % of traffic, what threshold we use for decisions, etc). In response to the comments about the data being only on enwp, we should be open to the fact that different Wikipedias may require different implementations.
You need also to take into account that almost 25% of the visits to enwp are from non-English speaking countries. Among these readers are users that might be recruited to read or even perhaps edit in their own language by noticing that there was a link visible. Wikipedia is more than a set of separate language projects. It is a connected set of language projects. The iw-links are what connects these projects. Hiding them on en-wp damages the other projects by cutting connections.
Hans Rosbach