bugs wrote:

*** Bug 12527 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

kevinjduke wrote:

yes, I refiled this bug, my other one was a complete mess

Currently the Simple English Wikipedia is not really supported, and is often considered an embarrassment and a mistake. Would recommend against pushing it with extra-prominent links unless there's some very firm intention to publicly support and push this wiki on the foundation's part.

kevinjduke wrote:

(In reply to comment #3)

Currently the Simple English Wikipedia is not really supported, and is often
considered an embarrassment and a mistake. Would recommend against pushing it
with extra-prominent links unless there's some very firm intention to publicly
support and push this wiki on the foundation's part.

Users at the village pump agreed that making the link more prominent will attract new users and editors. By this, the Simple English can finally live up to foundation standards. By providing the link, more people will be attracted to improve it.

What stops you from using JavaScript in [[MediaWiki:Common.js]] to add such feature? I know, some users don't have JS on, however better something than nothing, right?

kevinjduke wrote:

(In reply to comment #5)

What stops you from using JavaScript in [[MediaWiki:Common.js]] to add such
feature? I know, some users don't have JS on, however better something than
nothing, right?

I'm not sure if this comment is directed towards me, but the purpose of my proposal is not to help me (I already know that there is a simple english link), but to help kids that do not have user accounts with their monobooks enabled.

You don't need to have user account to see that link. If any admin will put necessary script in MediaWiki:Common.js, the prominent link will appear to everybody who doesn't have JS off (or unless somebody overrides it in own script).

kevinjduke wrote:

(In reply to comment #7)

You don't need to have user account to see that link. If any admin will put
necessary script in MediaWiki:Common.js, the prominent link will appear to
everybody who doesn't have JS off (or unless somebody overrides it in own
script).

Oh, well, I'm not an admin or anything.

WONTFIXing this. Like I said on bug 12527:

...how would it be done?

$wgHasSimpleVersion? English is the only language with a simple version
(afaik), so any changes to the code would need to be not-English-centric
(ie: usable across all languages). This being said, until/unless many
projects have simple versions, I'd suggest WONTFIXing this

A code change to add a box to Simple (that would need to be disabled on all wikis *except* enwiki) just isn't worth the effort. It's too "specifically-for-enwiki." As I (and Danny B) suggested, get it added to [[MediaWiki:Common.js]]. If there's consensus, you can find an admin to add it.