Roan Kattouw hett schreven:
2010/3/12 Marcus Buck wiki@marcusbuck.org:
Please spend some seconds to think about what we are speaking: At the moment a user needs to be logged-in and additionally he needs to enter the preferences menu (which is in English) and select a language he knows. But most people do not change the preferences. Most people are not even logged in. Most people do not even know English (at least 3/4 of the world's population). We render Commons unusable or at least less usable for at least 90% of the world.
I realize this is serious, but it's somewhat mitigated by the fact that Squid is only a limiting factor for anonymous users: we can still honor Accept-Language for logged-in users without affecting anything on the Squid side.
I don't think we need accept-language for logged-in users. We have preference settings for logged-in users. And if we want to improve the situation of logged-in users we should go with the idea Maarten Dammers and I proposed: Make the language set in the preferences of the home wiki the default for users who are new on Commons.
I don't know how many of Commons' visitors are anonymous. But either it is many, then it is important to support them better, or it is few, then the impact cannot be great. We need some numbers!
Marcus Buck