For those participating in the ongoing debate, you may or may not wish to be aware of the relative prominence of the interlanguage links in the new page layout.
You can see the new layout in development at Gwicke's demo wiki at http://wiki.aulinx.de/. (Log in and select the "MonoBook' skin in your preferences if it's not being shown initially.) After continued tweaking of the layout and the rest of the software, this or a close cousin is going to be the standard page layout on Wikipedia; it's been developed in response to longstanding usability problems with the existing skins, and has consistently met with the approval of Wikipedians asked to take a look.
Instead of along the top and bottom (which is ok for a few links but overwhelming as the list grows), they go in the sidebar, following the other functional links. This keeps them accessible but out of the way, and handles a long list less disruptively.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)