Anthere wrote:
What about countries where several langage are spoken, would it be a good idea that they have 5 times their flag on this page ?
Would not be too many flags quite heavy in terms of loading time, and using too much screen space ?
Why putting in the front countries ??? langages are important, not countries.
Indeed, we'd need dozens of flags for EN:, and plenty of flags would end up on several languages ... too complicated!
I think all that text is too much. newcomers are going to think "what is all this?". Besides, the introduction & explanation of the project is already on the language-specific main pages.
I suggest a very simple, minimal page:
"Wikipedia" at the top, large font, centred.
then a list (maybe 2-3 columns) of links that just say:
Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia (English) Wikipedia: l'encyclopedie libre (francais) Vikipedio: .... (Esperanto) Huiquipedia: Enciclopedia Libre Universal (Español)
etc
it's simple, it's clean, and people can easily find their language and follow for more information. I can do an HTML mockup to show better what I mean.