* Huib Laurens <sterkebak(a)gmail.com> [Mon, 6 Dec 2010 12:46:53 +0100]:
Hi!
MediaWiki is famous because its almost supported in all languages
that's
something other wiki software don't have, lets not
try to remove that.
So I
think the main bundle should be mediawiki with *all* languages.
Preservation of minor languages is a good idea. Besides that, one might
disagree which language is minor and which is not.
But a other option is to add a second download option
where people can
download mediawiki with only EN and make tarballs for all languages
available so people can add the languages they want. Maybe something
that
can be done on a mirror site.
That is widely used approach in desktop software, "localized versions"
of software.
Dmitriy