On 4 June 2010 13:00, Austin Hair <adh...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2010/6/4 Jon Harald Søby <jhs...@gmail.com>:
>> When you are monolingual and are already on your >> native language Wikipedia there isn't really a lot of use in going to >> another language. > What's more, when that language is the one with the largest Wikipedia, > you're likely to find the most comprehensive article of any language. > Pretty much every time I see a non-Anglophone Wikimedian look > something up on Wikipedia, though, they look it up in their native > language first, then look for a link to the same article on enwiki > (where there's probably a bigger article by virtue of sheer size) or > another language they speak (for regional topics; e.g. a Flemish > speaker checking frwiki for information on a city in Belgium). Can someone from the Foundation confirm whether any testing was done with people who would actually be affected by the decision to remove the language links - or only on people who wouldn't care? If only the latter, then the stated reason for removal would be in serious need of urgent review. - d. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l