Wikipedia is a multilingual reference work. The visibility of the interwiki links made that plain. Please restore them.
A. --- On Sat, 5/6/10, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] hiding interlanguage links by default is a > BadIdea, part 2 > To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Date: Saturday, 5 June, 2010, 19:47 > On 5 June 2010 19:40, Aphaia <aph...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > What is the good reason usability team thought data > from English > > Wikipedia visitors' behaviors and alone were enough to > design for all > > other 200+ languages' readership? It looks me an > obvious mistake in > > opposition of your statement. > > > Indeed. There appears to be *no* community or reader > groundswell in > favour of hiding the interwiki links by default. > > Where are the fans? So far I see Aryeh in favour. Is there > anyone > else? On foundation-l or the blog? > > If this is such a good idea, where are the voices in > favour, outside > the Foundation staff? > > For a decision that directly contradicts the words of the > mission > statement, by hampering the process of people finding > knowlege in > their own language, this really does not appear good > enough. > > Where is the communtiy or reader groundswell *in favour* of > this move? > It appears nonexistent. > > > - d. > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
