[Wikipedia-l] Yet another portal page

[Alfio Puglisi]

Without language detection you only have two options:

- a page with ONLY the languages listing, like the European portal
proposed by Sj
- a page in English, hoping that the majority of the online community can
read it.

The current page at www.wikipedia.org is a compromise with a language
listing, some English-only content, and some limited multilanguage
content.

Detecting the language enables you to, at least, present what would
normally be English-only in a language that your reader understands.

Alfio


On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, Mark Williamson wrote:

>Again, any browser-setting based redirect or even not a redirect but a
>simple "your language: xxx" notice suffers from problems I have
>already enumerated.
>
>Mark
>
>On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 17:03:53 +0100 (MET), Alfio Puglisi
><puglisi at arcetri.astro.it> wrote:
>>
>> Please now have a look at
>>
>> http://www.tommasoconforti.com/portal3.php
>>
>> (note the "3"). Only works with English, German, French and Italian
>> browser settings, to save on typing. Any errors are Google translation fault:-))
>>
>> This version translates all the top banner and adds "Go" box with text in
>> your language, and a drop-down selection of the available languages, with
>> yours selected first. Try changing your browser from en: to fr: or it:.
>>
>> If you change the language preference and reload, your browser might
>> retain the drop-down box selection (Firefox does), so you won't see the
>> new one automatically selected. In that case, try clearing your cache
>> (Firefox has a special cache for form data that needs to be cleared).
>>
>> Strings are hard-coded inside the script. Moving them to an
>> external configuration file is not a problem.
>>
>> Alfio
>>
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