Edward Z. Yang wrote:
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Language select allows users to hide foreign languages on multilingual pages. This would, for example, allow a French reader to see only French text on multilingual pages (though they would still see Spanish on a Spanish-only page). (as seen from http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Language_select )
I'd love to have this in the MediaWiki core, we were discussing just a few days ago how much a feature like this would help Commons. Adding a javascript variable describing the user's currently selected language is on my to do list, for this exact application.
I think we could put a loader stub in wikibits.js and have the bulk of the feature in a separate file, how does that sound?
-- Tim Starling