On Saturday 08 February 2003 12:35 pm, Erik Moeller wrote:
.....
If you want more than just language links on the portal, you have to wait
for phase IV. It's that simple. What we probably can do immediately,
though, is highlight (e.g. background color) the existing language link to
the user's primary language on *every page* (not just
www.wikipedia.org)
that has a translation in that language.
Regards,
Erik
Well if Anthere et al don't want an automatic slice of the huge amount of
traffic going to en.wiki's Main Page then I really don't know what to say.
<analogy>
Just because street thugs (advertisers) use knifes (language redirection based
on browser settings) doesn't mean that you shouldn't trust your surgeon with
a scalpel.
</analogy>
But I really like your highlighting idea Erik. This gives /even/ more
visibility to the multilanguage(sic) aspect of Wikipedia while still
presenting the user with a content laden and useful entry point.
I think we should reexamine Anthere's 'content on the portal' idea for
possible implementation in Phase IV. This might be a good place to have
en.wiki's Selected Articles section (if and when the browser a person is
using is set to English - if not then some selected content from the
appropriate language would be presented).
Heck, we could even set the 'selected content' to include the whole Main Page
that corresponds to the language set in a person's browser (what would be
more useful than that?). Then what we would have is Neil's header proposal.
--Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
WikiKarma:
I added more events to [[February 3]] and (as always) after Zoe finished
adding more births/deaths and even more events I updated all the year pages
and many of the other articles linked from that page.