--- Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
The decision to make a poll or the decision to have this portal ? For the decision to have this portal, well, I guess the majority if not all of those above agree with a portal. I think.
If you want a poll, this is fine by me.
Ugh. We *already* had one over a year ago.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/What_to_do_with_www.wikipedia.org#Voting
The results of that, plus the general consensus on the mailing list was strongly in favor of a multilingual portal. The sticking point was that noone come up with a specific solution that most people liked.
I still favor my idea.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/What_to_do_with_www.wikipedia.org-mav%27s_Pro...
Basically the top 25 or so languages would have boxes with the below message translated:
--------------- Welcome to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia!
We are working on {{xx_NUMBEROFARTICLES}} articles at the:
[X Wikipedia]
-----------------
xx would be a language code and X would be the language name.
The appropriate language would be highlighted based on whatever language the visitor's browser is in. The intro text (with project-wide stats) would also be based on browser language. After arriving a user could select "[Welcome]" in one of a host of different languages to get to whatever translation they want.
-- mav
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