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(a)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:
http://www.tommasoconforti.com/portal2.php
I like this. Auto redirect; NO. But this type of use of the browser
languages settings is good.
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[[w:nl:gebruiker:walter]]
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