Agreed here also, it is one of the core values of Wikipedia,
multilingualism, and should be visible when present in an article. Like
mentioned, people whose native language is not English could miss a lot from
this hiding.

On 16 May 2010 09:08, Mikemoral <mikemoral...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I must agree also. Same goes for anyone who's first language is not
> English,
> such as Spanish or German speakers. It could potentially be beneficial for
> the smaller Wikipedias.
>
> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Mark Williamson <node...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Agreed. I was very troubled to find this. Imagine, for example, some
> > IT professional whose first language is Hindi but is reading an
> > article in English. He may not know that we have a Hindi Wikipedia.
> > What if he'd be interested in contributing? What a shame that he
> > didn't see that interwiki...
> >
> > M
> >
> >
> > El jueves 13 de mayo, 2010 a las 1:46 AM, Francis Tyers
> > <spec...@ivixor.net> escribió:
> > > El dj 13 de 05 de 2010 a les 11:24 +0300, en/na Amir E. Aharoni va
> > > escriure:
> > >> The English Wikipedia moved to Vector and the interlanguage links by
> > default
> > >> are hidden under the title "Languages".
> > >>
> > >> This is a bad idea.
> > >>
> > >> It is perfectly OK to let people hide the interlanguage links if they
> > don't
> > >> want clutter, but by default they should be shown. If by default they
> > aren't
> > >> shown, a lot of people may never know that they exist at all.
> > >
> > > +1, if "Interaction" is opened by default, then "Languages" should be
> > > too.
> > >
> > > Fran
> > >
> > >
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