On Tuesday 24 September 2002 01:15 am, Magnus Manske wrote:

Anthere wrote:

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I am glad that everybody's seems SO happy by how quickly that issue was settled.

After the issue had been around for some days, and with a lots of "red links" against very few (two, I think I saw before I made the change), and the change being less work than this email, I just leaped into action ;)

I think that it was a /very/ important point that the two objections came from members of different Wikipedia projects. Remember, this is the English mailing list and just because we agree to do something doesn't mean that we should force this decision upon the other projects against their wishes.

Even though we have numerical superiority in terms of users Anthere is right in saying that the rights of minorities must be respected.

This is why it would be a good idea to have different default display setting tables for each of the different Wikipedias. That way each project can decide what defaults they want to set (big deal if the French use ?, the English use red underlined links, and the Germans use red links that are not underlined -- readers will figure it out).

Different cultures have different ideas about color and style so we should have some flexibility in this regard. In the interim, this could be manually set the way you changed it in CVS for each language Wikipedia as it goes online. The default display settings table can come later (otherwise this feature would have to be manually "patched" each time a language gets its software updated).

I still /strongly/ support having red links as the default for the English Wikipedia.

--- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)