[Wikimediaindia-l] autodetecting user's language(s) on Wikimedia sites

[Sumana Harihareswara]

On 12/20/2011 10:35 AM, wikimediaindia-l-request at lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:24:41 +0530
> From: Ravishankar <ravidreams at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] ONE simple step to double or triple visits
> 	to	Indic Wikipedias
> To: Wikimedia India Community list
> 	<wikimediaindia-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
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> Hi,
> 
> Today, I went to download WordPress and it told me it is also available in
> Tamil. Very neatly done as it somehow detected that I am from Tamilnadu.
> 
> See the screenshot at: http://ravidreams.com/ta-wordpress.png
> 
> A similar announcement in English Wiki projects is sure to double or triple
> traffic to Indic Wiki projects.
> 
> We have been requesting this feature for years.
> 
> Curious when it will be implemented.
> 
> Ravi

Ravi (or others who know): is
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3665 an adequate summary
of your request?  Or perhaps there's another bug I missed when I was
searching Bugzilla -- you're not just looking to localise the interface
for people coming to our wikis, you want to alert them to the existence
of wikis in their language(s).

I think other people in this thread have mentioned some other facets and
possibilities around language selection and detection, so maybe you
could add your relevant thoughts/suggestions to the relevant bugs in
Bugzilla, so the MediaWiki developers have access to them when
considering this issue.  Thanks.

-- 
Sumana Harihareswara
Volunteer Development Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation