[Note: The message that I'm replying to wasn't sent to <intlwiki-l>. Or maybe it went under separate cover; I'm not sure.]
Neil Harris wrote:
[...] I suggest that [...] http://www.wikipedia.org/ [...] should be consist of
- a thin welcome banner with links pointing to the multi-lingual-portal
page (eg http://www.wikipedia.org/index1.html) and the multi-lingual Wikipedia foundation page.
- a drop-down language-selection menu
- a search bar
AND MOST IMPORTANTLY:
- the front page content of the localised Wikipedia of the user's or
browser's choice, as per my previous comments
This is an interesting idea. It combines the best of the multilingual portal front page idea (the existence of such a page, the choice of language selection) with the best of the browser sniffing idea (a language specific front page that is most likely what they want).
I don't suppose that you have a mock up of your own? ^_^
-- Toby