Brion Vibber <vibber(a)aludra.usc.edu> writes:
I'm generally leery of drop-down boxes as they
don't show the available
options until you've gone to the trouble of asking what's available. And
if the available options are different for each page, that's going to
spell trouble. People will check a few times, then stop looking once
they've found that their language never comes up.
That is why I proposed the drop down boxes as a user pref. It should be
switched off by default to allow people to discover the multilinguality of
wikipedia. But if someone speaks only one language and isn't interested in
others his GUI shouldn't be cluttered up with for him useless language
links.
Thomas' idea of taking the language code is another idea I would favour.
BTW, in some Wikipedias (Czech, Esperanto, Svedish, Polish) the language
links are translated into this language, making it difficult for someone
who doesn't know czech f.e. to find the link to "his" wikipedia. Maybe we
should add a comment in Language.php that the list of languages should not
be touched and localized.
greetings,
elian