This a problem, because, somebody cannot understand "choose your language".

I would hope everyone in the world who would use Wikipedia would be able to read the phrase, "Choose your language" or at least the word "language". In all of my travels, I've only found one person (a young Japanese person in the USA on a Greyhound bus) who couldn't understand the word "language". I'm sure though that a Japanese person seeing a link with Japanese characters would click it though...

Generally when I meet someone in a country where I can't speak the language, I start by saying "English, Deutsch, Espa~nol?" and then usually the reply is "English" or "Deutsch" and then we begin a conversation. In this same way Wikipedia would start by presenting the languages in question, like http://europa.eu.int/, www.esperanto.net or www.tejo.org.

I have a fair amount of experience with multilingual webpages, and this is the general practice and multilingual people really appreciate knowing that a language is in more than one language instead of simply being directed to "their version".

Automatic redirection solves this problem, transporting you to your language frontpage.

This doesn't show that a webpage is in multiple languages and doesn't help the Esperanto speakers in the Czech Republic nor the English speakers in Sweden.

Later, in this page you can choose, using the language you understand, go to another page of a language you speak too, like or understand.

But what if you don't understand the page that your browser has redirected you to because your browser is poorly configured or you're using a computer in an Internet cafe which uses a language you can't understand? I still remember the nightmares of trying to set up an MSN messenger account which I desperately needed in a Czech republic internet cafe! ...and try changing your browser settings when all the browser help is in Czech!

Chuck

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