On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Austin Hair <adh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxw...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Who cares if people click them a lot? The space they formally >> occupied is filled with nothing now. >> >> They were equally valuable as a marketing statement about the breadth >> and inclusiveness of our project as they were as a navigational tool. >> >> Concealing them behind the languages box also significantly reduces >> discoverability for the people who need it most: Someone who, through >> following links, ends up on a wikipedia which is not in their primary >> language. Before they needed to scroll down past a wall of difficult >> to read foreign language, now they need to do that and expand some >> foreign language box. > > I agree with every one of these points, and want to emphasize the > last—a person may be able to recognize the word for his language in > another random language, but he probably won't recognize the word for > "language" itself.
Maybe we should support the "Language Icon" idea: http://languageicon.org/index-icon.php -- Fajro _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
