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

[Fajro]

Maybe we should discuss if the usability is more important than
multilinguism (It's not!) in Wikimedia Projects.


On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 2:10 AM, Elias Gabriel Amaral da Silva <
> If one wants to talk about usability, it's important to keep track the
> most impaired users, because they have more urgent needs. (Yeah,
> people with little English skills are actually in a disadvantageous
> position on wiki-en: there are few multilingual clues at the first
> spot, and then the "see in the language I prefer" section is now
> behind an unnecessary "Languages")
>
> BTW, I liked that "universal signs" idea of some poster I lost track
> here. I just think it doesn't really apply to the language list (that

How it doesn't apply?

 See the examples: http://languageicon.org/examples.php

> should be fully expanded), but rather to "Discussion", "Edit", etc

There is an uviversal edit button:
http://universaleditbutton.org/

> Some universal symbols:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recycling_symbol...

The language icon was inspired by those icons:

Feed icon: http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/feed-icon-guidelines/
Share icon: www.openshareicons.com/
Geotag icon: http://www.geotagicons.com/
OPML icon: http://opmlicons.com/

I think it's a good idea to use an icon for language.


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Fajro