Alfio Puglisi (puglisi@arcetri.astro.it) [050110 06:25]:
I took the current www.wikipedia.org page and added an auto-selection based on the browser language settings. This example recognizes all the languages with 10.000+ articles: http://www.tommasoconforti.com/portal2.php Source on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portal_code
Nice one!
A wikipedia.ch style search box for the 50,000+ languages would be nice, and would invite people to do something. (wikipedia.ch has a search box followed by four 'Search' buttons in different languages to search that Wikipedia.) Although I believe search is still switched off ... perhaps a 'Go' button in the 50k+ languages? Is that possible with PHP just in that page?
(Of course, there's a good reason not to do *too* much special with the top several languages: at some point other languages are going to make that list, and if we ever want to prune it back they'll resent being dropped from that status.)
- d.