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Have a look at Alfios proposal first: it doesn't redirect via
autoselection, but has a line saying: "Wikipedia in your language:
<language>" on top of the actual portal. It's a pretty solution for the
highlighting problem.
Till
We have already discussed why outright auto-selection
is a BAD
idea. It's horrible for usability. I used to have my auto-accept
language set as Japanese, but my preferred language is English. I
would not appreciate being sent to ja.wikipedia.
Mark
On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 20:25:13 +0100 (MET), Alfio Puglisi
<puglisi(a)arcetri.astro.it> wrote:
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
Try to set your browser to Russian or Esperanto and see what
happens :-) If the language preference is not recognized, no
selection appear.
It's basically the same page at
www.wikipedia.org, with a few
lines of php inserted. I copied over wikimedia's stylesheets and
images since hitting wikipedia servers was too slow. Japanese
and Chinese characters might be incorrect since I don't have
them installed and I have no idea of what I put on the page :-))
Source on
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portal_code
Alfio
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