[Wikipedia-l] Re: A portal page for www.wikipedia.org

Sun Jan 9 19:30:42 UTC 2005

--- Anthere <anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> The decision to make a poll or the decision to have this portal ?
> For the decision to have this portal, well, I guess the majority if not 
> all of those above agree with a portal. I think.
> 
> If you want a poll, this is fine by me.

Ugh. We *already* had one over a year ago. 

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/What_to_do_with_www.wikipedia.org#Voting

The results of that, plus the general consensus on the mailing list was
strongly in favor of a multilingual portal. The sticking point was that noone
come up with a specific solution that most people liked. 

I still favor my idea.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/What_to_do_with_www.wikipedia.org-mav's_Prop

Basically the top 25 or so languages would have boxes with the below message
translated:

---------------
Welcome to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia!

We are working on {{xx_NUMBEROFARTICLES}} articles at the:

[X Wikipedia]

-----------------

xx would be a language code and X would be the language name. 

The appropriate language would be highlighted based on whatever language the
visitor's browser is in. The intro text (with project-wide stats) would also be
based on browser language. After arriving a user could select "[Welcome]" in
one of a host of different languages to get to whatever translation they want. 

-- mav

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