Definitely. The only purpose it should serve is to direct the user to
the desired Wikipedia. There are "search" and "go" boxes at the
respective Wikipedias.
Another issue is size. All the languages with over 100 articles will
easily fit in a minimalist portal, but if you want to have search and
go boxes, article of the week, whatever, for each one - even if you
restrict it to above 1000 articles - it's going to be gargantuan and
un-useful.
One prediction I have is that somebody will suggest adding flags to
make it easier to choose languages. This is a BAD idea because there
are speakers of French in Japan, speakers of Thai in Malta, speakers
of Catalan in Greece, etc; also some languages are indigenous to more
than one country, or they don't have a corresponding flag (for
diaspora languages such as Yiddish and Ladino), or it's not
recognizable to most speakers of the language.
Mark
On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 23:53:45 +0200, NSK <nsk2(a)wikinerds.org> wrote:
On Saturday 08 January 2005 23:36, David Gerard
wrote:
That must be some sort of absolute minimalist
portal, then ... which I'm
*not* sure is the best portal.
A minimalist portal is the best thing you can have.
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