On 7 June 2010 23:16, Howie Fung <hfung(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
So in terms of a path forward, here is a proposal:
1. Immediate revert so that all languages are exposed by default.
2. 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