On 4 June 2010 21:21, David Levy <lifeisunf...@gmail.com> wrote: >> They especially don't complain about things like clutter, because the >> negative effect that has is barely perceptible -- extra effort >> required to find things. > > I've encountered many complaints about clutter at the English > Wikipedia (pertaining to articles, our main page and other pages), but > not one complaint that the interwiki links caused clutter.
FWIW, the only time I've heard a complaint about the visual effect of the interwikis is where we have a very short article on an internationally popular topic, such as: http://pdc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaa ...here, 90% of the page "area" is blank space, as the article has stopped but the interwikis keep on going, and it feels as though the page is a very weirdly laid-out way of referring people to different languages. (This is quite rare on enwiki these days because due to sheer numbers, it's unusual to find a topic covered in ten or more languages which is a mere stub on en. But there's still plenty of cases out there.) Interestingly, even with the full list of languages, the page above looks better in Vector than in Monobook: http://pdc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaa?useskin=vector http://pdc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaa?useskin=monobook - dropping the "solid boxes" from the left-hand column means that it doesn't look so dominant when expanded. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l