On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 10:20 PM, John Vandenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 5:48 AM, Aryeh Gregor > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Gregory Maxwell <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Who cares if people click them a lot? The space they formally >>> occupied is filled with nothing now. >> >> Interface clutter is not psychologically free. Empty space is better >> than space filled with mostly-useless controls. Whether these >> particular controls are worth it I don't know, but the general >> principle of hiding seldom-used things is sound. > > They are not "mostly-useless controls"; they are there because > _building_ content _in every language_ is our mission. > > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Our_projects > > Missing interwikis are a valuable cue that a block is missing.
Yes, this. The list of available languages is a key part of a page, not a navigation nicety. They used to be available at the top of an article by default, until that started taking up a few inches of screen space across the board. We could still use a small bit of text reading "also in N other languages" that is similarly prominent: above-the-fold, near the top of the page. SJ _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
