--- erik_moeller@gmx.de wrote:
I'm not the person being asked, but I think there's a simple solution: www.wikipedia.org should do an HTTP redirect to en.wikipedia.org, de.wikipedia.org or whatever based on the language preference in the browser. If someone who has German in their browser then wants to work on the English WP, they just click on the "English" link on the top, or go to en.wikipedia.org next time instead of www.wikipedia.org. But in general, no language would be preferred, and the browser settings would be honored instead.
Is there any problem with that? I strongly agree with Cunctator and others that a static, language-"neutral" frontpage is a very, very bad idea, esp. from a usability perspective.
Yes, this is what I want as well. The only objection that has been raised (to my knowledge) is that people may get directed to the wrong language. I don't understand this objection, as we should be using the language preference setting in each visitor's web browser. Also, a person would still be one click away from any other language, and he could set a language in his Wikipedia preferences should he desire.
Stephen G.
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