[Wikipedia-l] Re: www portal: "The Free Encyclopedia" in Japanese?

Sun Jan 9 07:06:50 UTC 2005

Mark Williamson a écrit:

> One prediction I have is that somebody will suggest adding flags to
> make it easier to choose languages. This is a BAD idea because there
> are speakers of French in Japan, speakers of Thai in Malta, speakers
> of Catalan in Greece, etc; also some languages are indigenous to more
> than one country, or they don't have a corresponding flag (for
> diaspora languages such as Yiddish and Ladino), or it's not
> recognizable to most speakers of the language.

Not a prediction. It was already done. And reverted.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Www.wikipedia.org_portal&oldid=88466

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