On 04/18/2013 06:50 PM, Pau Giner wrote:
As multilingual content grows, interlanguage links
become longer on
Wikipedia articles. Articles such as "Barak Obama" or "Sun" have more
than
200 links, and that becomes a problem for users that often switch among
several languages.
For how many users is this a problem? How do you estimate
this? I think it's good that the user is a little overwhelmed
with how many languages are available. The use of Geo-IP
will be interpreted as a political tool that tries to enforce
certain languages in certain geographic areas, which would
be contrary to the mission of the Wikimedia Foundation,
that says all the world's knowledge in your own language.
If a user finds it offensive that an article is available in some
languages that she somehow dislikes, let her login and
select which ones should be hidden. The burden should be
on that user. Wikipedia should provide knowledge, not
hide it.
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Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
Aronsson Datateknik -
http://aronsson.se