On 9/29/05, Rowan Collins <rowan.collins(a)gmail.com> wrote: Nope, that's not it at all. I had no idea that existed! Except that one's for site maintenance rather than for unexpected errors. When Squid encounters an error (which makes up a substantial proportion of downtime errors) it is configured to spit out a bland HTML page. It can't serve images or PHP scripts or anything of that nature: all we can have is a plain old HTML file :) The problem there is that we cannot use a server-side script to detect a user's language preferences. The only way to detect languages on the client-side is through Javascript, and that only reports the language used by the user's browser. Internet Explorer users have a better deal here, because IE can also return the language setting set by the user in the Control Panel (which is more likely to reflect the language the user is most comfortable with using). For a preview, use the following URL: http://www.mindspillage.net/braindump/friends/error-utf8.htm I don't expect it to remain up on Mindspillage's webspace for long. She has been very generous in allowing me the use of that webspace for testing and really does deserve a cookie. ~Mark Ryan

I was originally only going to include about 5 languages, and have the very outer languages a lot more faded out than they are now. So the languages were to be in decreasing order of article count as they went out from the centre (English), and would be decorated accordingly (i.e. a paler font). The centre languages have the most articles, the outer languages have the least. I did make one concession to the fact that article count isn't everything: I included Chinese, which does not rank in our top 10 wikis by article count but is responsible for up to 3% of Wikipedia's traffic according to Alexa, which is more than the French Wikipedia. ~Mark Ryan On 9/29/05, Robin Shannon <robin.shannon(a)gmail.com> wrote: