Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com writes:
I personally think it would then be neat for www.wikipedia.org to sniff the language setting of a visitor's browser and then automatically direct them to their language's welcome page if it exists -- if it doesn't then it would bring them to the English welcome page. I don't think that matching the language a person's browser is in with a welcome page in the same language is going to harm the user when several other welcome pages in different languages are just a click away. If this sniffing is done then all the different languages can equally use www.wikipedia.org for promotional purposes without having to explain why the default is in English and how to get to their language's welcome page.
Although I normally oppose browser-sniffing, one solution would be to make the welcome-text (and only this) language-dependent. Either this or in addition to it we could also adapt Magnus' suggestion to emphasize the preferred language-wikipedia.
It would also be neat to be able to set your user preferences to bypass the multilingual Welcome Page or to over-ride the language sniffing and go directly to your language of choice (but typing xx.wikipedia.org or clicking on a different welcome page isn't that hard so this isn't too important).
At the moment it takes one click to get to Recentchanges from the mainpage - in the future also. I assumed that's the page regulars consult first when they come to wikipedia.
greetings, elian