Seems reasonable for logged in users to opt in for languages they are going to actually use, but what about anonnomous users? Perhaps it could be a hidden field with an Ajax(/some fallback) control that only loads the other languages when the user asks for them, which would probably be seldom. Finally, we could we ask them if they want to use that language as thier default from now on with a little checkbox, reducing annoyance and also number of requests for the whole list by keeping state information.
These features would also be useful for commons afaik.
- Trevor
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On Mar 23, 2009, at 5:10 AM, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
Nice to have all the world's alphabets at one's fingertips right there on the (www.mediawiki.org) edit page. Wow, IPA, Pīnyīn, they're all there. I'm saving it for even when I'm not editing MediaWiki.
(However, as it bloats the edit page up to 700% $ wget -O x.html http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=WHATEVER%5C&action=edit $ perl -nwle 'print unless /onclick/' x.html|wc -c - x.html|sed '$d' 19748 - 139708 x.html there should also be some mechanism available for pages like these for users to opt out, perhaps via Preferences?)
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