On 7 June 2010 23:16, Howie Fung <hf...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > So in terms of a path forward, here is a proposal: > 1. Immediate revert so that all languages are exposed by default. > 2. We will continue work on a compromise solution. The current > interface is probably not perfect, so we’ll be continuing to look for > ways to improve it. We welcome your ideas -- please direct them to [2] > so we can keep track. > 3. We will A/B-test proposed solutions against the default. We'll > involve the community to design the A/B test (e.g., what % of traffic, > what threshold we use for decisions, etc). In response to the comments > about the data being only on enwp, we should be open to the fact that > different Wikipedias may require different implementations. > > You need also to take into account that almost 25% of the visits to enwp are from non-English speaking countries. Among these readers are users that might be recruited to read or even perhaps edit in their own language by noticing that there was a link visible. Wikipedia is more than a set of separate language projects. It is a connected set of language projects. The iw-links are what connects these projects. Hiding them on en-wp damages the other projects by cutting connections.
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