On 12/20/2011 10:35 AM, wikimediaindia-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:24:41 +0530
From: Ravishankar <ravidreams(a)gmail.com>
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] ONE simple step to double or triple visits
to Indic Wikipedias
To: Wikimedia India Community list
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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.
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Volunteer Development Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation