On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Mark Williamson <node.ue(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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.
But that logic doesn't apply to multilingual wikis like Commons, and
since you mention Chinese, it doesn't apply to languages with multiple
variants either. If he *did* use an OS configured to traditional
Chinese, it would be nice if it showed up as that instead of
simplified if he didn't log in, and vice versa. The question is worth
thinking about in that regard.