jasonspiro4 wrote:

Brion, before you mark this WONTFIX, please reread this bit above:

"These icons would draw more attention to the foreign-language Wikipedia
versions. More people would visit and contribute."

Cheers :)

Too many icons make things ugly, cluttered, and hard to use.

In judicious use, icons _can_ draw the eye to _important_
things. When you start putting an icon on *everything* you lose
any benefit, and usability goes rapidly downhill.

There are already too many language links on many pages and most
proposals are to collapse that section to improve legibility.
Filling it with politically dangerous flags would certainly not
help. ;)

Enthusiasm is appreciated, but we really need to go the opposite
direction if we care about usability: tone down the visuals,
keep things short and simple and out of the way.

WONTFIX.