[Commons-l] Automatic messages to users: guessing user preferred language

[Erik Moeller]

On 10/5/07, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well right, we'd have to jump through some hoops to make the change
> but I think it may well be worth it. Perhaps tie in the data becoming
> public with the switch to SUL?

I don't see a privacy issue here. IMHO it would be fine to immediately
make this visible on the user page.

It would actually be wise to allow users to express language abilities
in a more fine-grained way through the preferences. But this is
information that users should only have to maintain once, not
repeatedly, so that part should probably wait until SUL.

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Erik

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