[Foundation-l] hiding interlanguage links by default is a Bad Idea, part 2

[Yann Forget]

Hello,

2010/6/4 Platonides <Platonides at gmail.com>:
> James Alexander wrote:
>> We have a couple threads on this issue but picking the most recent :). It
>> appears that this has now been changed (
>> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23497 ) and so once the next
>> revision is pushed live the interwikis would be visible by default.
>>
>> James Alexander
>
> Spoke too soon.
>
> I fixed it (it's a one-line change), but Trevor reverted it:
>> This goes against an intentional design
>> decision. To discuss that decision further and submit proposals to change this
>> design please contact Howie Fung <hfung at wikimedia.org> or visit
>> http://usability.wikimedia.org

This is bad.
I think that interwiki links are an essential part of the Mediawiki interface.
Hiding them in English Wikipedia will only reduce the accessibility of
other languages, which is against our mission.

Regards,

Yann