On 12/20/2011 10:35 AM, wikimediaindia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:24:41 +0530 From: Ravishankar ravidreams@gmail.com Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] ONE simple step to double or triple visits to Indic Wikipedias To: Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: CAF2QyrA+2114egy3fxH5oEx6f7RU2nbQw45Y3Xjyvg5MrvMg9g@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Hi,
Today, I went to download WordPress and it told me it is also available in Tamil. Very neatly done as it somehow detected that I am from Tamilnadu.
See the screenshot at: http://ravidreams.com/ta-wordpress.png
A similar announcement in English Wiki projects is sure to double or triple traffic to Indic Wiki projects.
We have been requesting this feature for years.
Curious when it will be implemented.
Ravi
Ravi (or others who know): is https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3665 an adequate summary of your request? Or perhaps there's another bug I missed when I was searching Bugzilla -- you're not just looking to localise the interface for people coming to our wikis, you want to alert them to the existence of wikis in their language(s).
I think other people in this thread have mentioned some other facets and possibilities around language selection and detection, so maybe you could add your relevant thoughts/suggestions to the relevant bugs in Bugzilla, so the MediaWiki developers have access to them when considering this issue. Thanks.