[Wikipedia-l] Yet another portal page

[Mark Williamson]

We have already discussed why outright auto-selection is a BAD idea.
It's horrible for usability. I used to have my auto-accept language
set as Japanese, but my preferred language is English. I would not
appreciate being sent to ja.wikipedia.

Mark

On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 20:25:13 +0100 (MET), Alfio Puglisi
<puglisi at arcetri.astro.it> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> Try to set your browser to Russian or Esperanto and see what happens :-)
> If the language preference is not recognized, no selection appear.
> 
> It's basically the same page at www.wikipedia.org, with a few lines of php
> inserted. I copied over wikimedia's stylesheets and images since hitting
> wikipedia servers was too slow. Japanese and Chinese characters might be
> incorrect since I don't have them installed and I have no idea of what I
> put on the page :-))
> 
> Source on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portal_code
> 
> Alfio
> 
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