On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
Many people, for example expats, may be using computers where the browser default language is not the language they would prefer. For example, I know there is at least one person at my university here in Arizona who edits the Chinese Wikipedia regularly. If he were to do it from any of the public computers at school (the libraries or computing commons, for instance), that does not mean he would want to read the interface in English. That would be an extra hassle.
But that logic doesn't apply to multilingual wikis like Commons, and since you mention Chinese, it doesn't apply to languages with multiple variants either. If he *did* use an OS configured to traditional Chinese, it would be nice if it showed up as that instead of simplified if he didn't log in, and vice versa. The question is worth thinking about in that regard.