[Foundation-l] Re: Wikimedia Foundation Website

Wed Aug 4 07:03:43 UTC 2004

So much as I would like this site to be multilingual, I must say I 
disagree with you in this case Sj. What you suggest is interested for 
meta probably (but the flags), but The Foundation is american, and the 
language used is english, so it is really okay that the portal page is 
in english.

I essentially wish that other languages are available for most, if not 
all pages. And I wish that every reader see this is available.

But for an american foundation, it makes sense to give priority to 
english language.

Btw, I do not think that all pages will be necessarily translated :-) so 
  our solution should include that when a page is not available, then 
there  is a switch back to english (or a "we are sorry" message on top, 
with the english version below).

ant

Sj a écrit:
> On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 17:44:13 -0700, Brion Vibber <brion at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
>>Sj wrote:
>>
>>>I would love to see a simple "pick your language" portal, a la
>>>http://www.easyjet.com/ .
>>
>>Ugh, flags. No thanks.
> 
> 
> That's not what I meant... and there's a lot more not to like about it
> than flags (bright orange?? bordered buttons?).   However, it doen't
> include navbars in the portal, and manages to fit seven languages onto
> a screen, unlike our own portals (all of which, btw, are EN-centric;
> cf. http://wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page and
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks_portal).
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