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
Sent from my iPod
On Mar 23, 2009, at 5:10 AM, jidanni(a)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\&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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