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[M. Williamson]

...and Nikerabbit removed it giving only the explanation: "not here, per
Nikerabbit (would have already fixed the real issues if only somebody had
told me)"

It seems like he's saying that someone should've let him know about the
autoselection issue, but he doesn't seem to agree that _even with_ auto
language selection, the user should still be able to choose a different
language manually on the mainpage.

2011/9/29 Robin Pepermans <robinp.1273 at gmail.com>

> You can go to http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Main_Page?setlang=es but
> that's obviously not something everyone knows. I once added a language
> selector but it was removed at some point. I added it back now.
>
> 2011/9/29 M. Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com>:
> > Yes, when I went to commons I was pleased to get a notice that said
> > "Wikimedia Commons está disponible en español" at the top of the page.
> > Doesn't obligate the user to change, and the language chooser bar offers
> the
> > user a plethora of other choices in case the language guess was wrong.
> Would
> > be nice to see the same thing on Meta. And while we're at it, why isn't
> > Wikispecies more multilingual?
> >
> > 2011/9/29 Strainu <strainu10 at gmail.com>
> >
> >> 2011/9/29 Béria Lima <berialima at gmail.com>:
> >> > As a IP is impossible (at least for me) and before someone complain:
> Yes,
> >> > I'm sure my IP is identified as been Portuguese.
> >>
> >> Wikimedia Commons offers anonymous users the possibility to see the
> >> site in their  (guessed) language AFAIK. I'm sure it's not rocket
> >> science to port that to meta if necessary.
> >>
> >> Perhaps you should log a bug on that?
> >>
> >> Strainu
> >>
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