Seems reasonable for logged in users to opt in for languages they are  
going to actually use, but what about anonnomous users? Perhaps it  
could be a hidden field with an Ajax(/some fallback) control that only  
loads the other languages when the user asks for them, which would  
probably be seldom. Finally, we could we ask them if they want to use  
that language as thier default from now on with a little checkbox,  
reducing annoyance and also number of requests for the whole list by  
keeping state information.

These features would also be useful for commons afaik.

- Trevor

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On Mar 23, 2009, at 5:10 AM, [email protected] wrote:

> Nice to have all the world's alphabets at one's fingertips right there
> on the (www.mediawiki.org) edit page. Wow, IPA, Pīnyīn, they're all
> there. I'm saving it for even when I'm not editing MediaWiki.
>
> (However, as it bloats the edit page up to 700%
> $ wget -O x.html 
> http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=WHATEVER\&action=edit
> $ perl -nwle 'print unless /onclick/' x.html|wc -c - x.html|sed '$d'
>  19748 -
> 139708 x.html
> there should also be some mechanism available for pages like these for
> users to opt out, perhaps via Preferences?)
>
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