On 18 April 2013 20:43, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 18 April 2013 17:50, Pau Giner pginer@wikimedia.org wrote:
Please let me know if you see any possible concern with this approach.
My first thought is of how upset people were when the first version of Vector hid the language links by default. I would suggest being sure there will be little or no similar objection.
(hit send too soon, sorry)
A simple solution that would avoid a similar reaction is: do not do this by default - make it only for logged-in users who want it that way.
Possibly for default users, you could put the heuristically-calculated likely preferred languages at the top. But keeping the rest of the list below, right there on display, will (I predict) be favoured, as advertising the many languages of Wikipedia is a strongly-held value of many Wikimedians.
- d.