Many people, for example expats, may be using computers where the browser default language is not the language they would prefer. For example, I know there is at least one person at my university here in Arizona who edits the Chinese Wikipedia regularly. If he were to do it from any of the public computers at school (the libraries or computing commons, for instance), that does not mean he would want to read the interface in English. That would be an extra hassle.
For the most part, the vast majority of people going to a Wikipedia are going to want to see the interface in that language. Get over it.
Mark
On 19/03/2008, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/19/08, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
I doubt that serving interface text according to browser language is a high priority, given the usually reasonable assumption that people don't register an account on a project where they can't read the
I'm not talking about registering an account, I'm talking about browsing while unregistered. The language thing makes it tough to perform interwiki maintenance.
I guess a lot of this will go away with SUL?
language. If you are that determined, then the uselang hack works well enough.
Maybe with a greasemonkey script.
Steve
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