On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 03:49:12PM -0800, Brion Vibber wrote:
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 15:01, Kurt Jansson wrote:
Brion Vibber schrieb:
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 14:30, tarquin wrote:
It's great to see that list of lang links vertical instead of horizontal!!!! :-D
That's actually going to be problematic, as the floating sidebar can't be scrolled vertically and the limited vertical space will be quickly used up, particularly on smaller screens.
How about a drop down box?
I believe I've already answered that on wikipedia-l:
How about a drop down list box, such as the one on the TEJO site? That would be very economical as to space and give plenty of options to choose from.
I'm generally leery of drop-down boxes as they don't show the available options until you've gone to the trouble of asking what's available. And if the available options are different for each page, that's going to spell trouble. People will check a few times, then stop looking once they've found that their language never comes up.
Wiki is about serendipidous discovery; part of that is seeing that a link to Chinese or Polish or Esperanto or Volapuk or Latin or French is available without having thought to seek it out.
However, it's a direction worth looking into.
How about a compromise? No drop-down menu, but how about letting users select which languages they would like to see? I would be more than happy to ignore the entire world, except for Japanese and the Queen's Eng.... err, English.
Some of the other links should be moved elsewhere. Upload image could be on the 'Special:Specialpages' page. Same with Bug reports, and current events.