As noted before, it will minimize the other options. If Dutch is featured prominently because it is set as the auto-accept language, somebody is less likely to notice that W. Frisian, Limburgish, Afrikaans, etc. are also available.
As Ant noted in another thread on the same topic (really, this is getting out of hand), the French reporters who didn't know that fr: existed... this would be similar, and potentially millions of users could be inconvenienced by it. Some Wikipedias link prominently (or at least somewhat prominently) to other languages spoken in the same region: Afrikaans links to other South African languages, Hindi links to other Indian languages, Chinese links to the other languages of China, etc. But some languages, for example English, cannot afford this because there are just too many languages (English has Inuktitut, French, Spanish, Navajo, Maori, Welsh, Irish, Scottish, Cornish, Chinese, Malay, Hebrew, Yiddish, Afrikaans, and plenty of other languages).
Mark
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 01:21:21 +0100, Walter Vermeir walter@wikipedia.be wrote:
Alfio Puglisi schreef:
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:
I like this. Auto redirect; NO. But this type of use of the browser languages settings is good.
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