--- elian elian@gmx.li wrote:
Axel Boldt axelboldt@yahoo.com writes:
But what's the argument against our doing so
properly,
by looking at what the browser itself says is
the preferred language?
I think this is the correct approach. The
browser's language preference
decides which Wikipedia's main page they get. If
there is no Wikipedia
in that language, or if they don't specify a
preference, they get
English.
So we continue our current procedure to hide the other language wikipedias from the user. It doesn't mind that I speak five languages, I have to be happy with the German wikipedia because it's point one in my browser settings. And if my Spanish friends use my computer for surfing, they get German, too, even if they speak no German at all. And the Japanese student at the German university library computer gets German, too, even if he would be a lot more interested in the japanese wikipedia.
Sorry, I can't see any additional value from such a front page.
greetings, elian
I'm thinking that you would get the German front page, but a row of links at the top would give you the option of visiting the other language options.
It would be similiar to what we have now, except you would get the front page in your prefered language rather than English.
Stephen G.
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