[Foundation-l] Re: Multilingual error messages

Thu Sep 29 05:27:27 UTC 2005

I was originally only going to include about 5 languages, and have the
very outer languages a lot more faded out than they are now. So the
languages were to be in decreasing order of article count as they went
out from the centre (English), and would be decorated accordingly
(i.e. a paler font). The centre languages have the most articles, the
outer languages have the least. I did make one concession to the fact
that article count isn't everything: I included Chinese, which does
not rank in our top 10 wikis by article count but is responsible for
up to 3% of Wikipedia's traffic according to Alexa, which is more than
the French Wikipedia.

~Mark Ryan

On 9/29/05, Robin Shannon <robin.shannon at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/29/05, Mark Ryan <ultrablue at gmail.com> wrote:
> > For a preview, use the following URL:
> > http://www.mindspillage.net/braindump/friends/error-utf8.htm
>
> Damnit, that looks real damn snazzy. *shakes Mark's hand*
> Just wondering why the languages are in the order that they are in?
> Im not saying its bad, i think thier current order looks really good.
>
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