Talk:Www.wikiversity.org template/2008

layout problem of main page (www.wikiversity.org) in IE

in Internet explorer: 7.0.6001.17119 there seems to be a layout problem on the tabs. This makes it harder for people to see the tabs and also is bad marketing.

With following 3 browsers the anomaly did not occur: Safari: 3.0.4 (523.13), Opera: 9.25 (build 8827), Firefox: 2.0.0.11

Can someone please check if this bug also happens on their pcs (with another IE version) ? Don't have at the moment a second system available for checking if this is a general error or some specific setting on my pc.

Microsoft® Windows® Server™ Release Candidate 1 - 2008 Datacenter, 64 bit, 6001.17119.amd64fre.longhorn.071210-1916 Service Pack 1, v.735 On request, I can provide more info, ----Erkan Yilmaz (Wikiversity:Chat, wiki blog) 15:50, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Unfortunately browsershots.org is blocked by WV to recheck this :-( ----Erkan Yilmaz (Wikiversity:Chat, wiki blog) 12:08, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

I can confirm that I get this bug too. In the source it looks as if something called "iefixes" has been disabled. --McCormack 17:48, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Link to the multilingual hub

It would make sense to have the link to the multilingual hub itself in more than one language, instead of just in English. The intended 'audience' of this link are people whose main language does not have a seperate Wikiversity wiki yet. So it makes sense to have a link with the text "other languages" in English and in the three main languages without a seperate Wikiversity.

Of course the issue then arises which are the "three main languages without a seperate Wikiversity". There are different ways of defining "main language", yielding completely different results: By number of speakers it would be Chinese, Hindi and Arabic; by number of Wikipedia articles (as a rough indicator of the "wiki potential" of a language) it would be Polish, Dutch and Russian; by number of pages in that language on beta.wikiversity.org (see [1]) it would be Bulgarian, Finnish and Chinese, whereas by number of internet users in that language (see [2]) it would be Chinese, Korean and Russian. I think it makes sense to combine these four criteria: The languages Chinese, Russian and Korean are the only languages that appear at least twice if one lists the first four languages according to each of these four criteria (Korean is fourth on number of pages on beta.wikiversity.org), so it makes sense to use these three languages.

So if we agree to use the expression "other languages" in English, Chinese, Russian and Korean, then the link would look as follows (if wikipedia.org is right on the expressions for "Other languages" in Chinese and Korean; I know that it's right for Russian):

Other languages / 其他语言
Другие языки / 다른 언어

I think we can dispense of the additional expression "Multilingual hub" (now found below the link) as it practically doesn't add much to what is already implied by "Other languages".

What do others think about this proposal? Marcos 03:37, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

There is a handful of active languages on Beta - about 3 to 6, depending on when you look at it. We have seen steady work in Finnish, and to lesser extends Arabic, Korean and other languages. There has been a recent surge of activity in Chinese (but mostly in the discussions of setting up an independent site rather than creating learning resources).Hillgentleman 02:38, 9 December 2008 (UTC)