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