|From: Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com |Organization: |Sender: wikipedia-l-admin@wikipedia.org |Reply-To: wikipedia-l@wikipedia.org |Date: 21 Feb 2003 20:15:20 -0800 | | |--=-y9jyPU66MsI+bYU9OWLV |Content-Type: text/plain |Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable | |Vendredon, 2003-02-21 20:00, Tom Parmenter skribis: |> But is a list of *other* languages the first thing people look for? |> Or is it information on how to look something up, what information is |> available, and so forth, in their *own* language? | |For that, it would help if they can *find* their own language. For that, |we need links. :) | |I await with bated breath your suggestions on how to make a long list of |language links not suck while remaining easily findable and accessible. | |-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com) |
That doesn't tell me why three lists are better than one. Put it anywhere you like, but why duplicate it? More to the point, why have lists of languages that are *not* duplicates?
If I read Arabic, my eye would absolutely leap to a bit of Arabic text no matter where it appeared on the page, I am sure.
I believe we should have one list and it should be complete and not discriminate against any language that has a wikipedia project. In other words, all 30 languages, and when the Tagalog and Shoshone and Pig Latin editions are available, add 'em. If the list has 300 languages, well, cool. People will still be able to find their own language just as well with one list as with three.
How to present? Alphabetical order, according to the alphabet (or other equivalent sorting technique) of the language of the main page. Maybe there could be a link to other presentations, sorting by number of articles, chronological order of appearance, little flags, maps, pulldowns by linguistic groups . . .
Tom Parmenter Ortolan88
PS -- While we're discussing encyclopedian languages, is it strictly accurate to state, for instance, that the article [[Louis Armstrong]] is also available in German, if the German article is completely different from the English one? If the link said, "Other Wikipedias" instead of "Other languages", it would be more accurate.
Tom
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