Comment Re:Most basic feature still missing (Score 1) 202
The English Wikipedia should have user preferences to select UK / US spellings.
Why? I never heard of people having trouble with the alternative* spellings. So long as each article is internally consistent, who cares which it uses?
It would be trivial compared
Hardly! Then you will have to support Australian and Canadian spelling. And determine it by context - we program a computer, but read a TV programme.
Then there are the subtle grammar differences, and vocabulary. Would need to manually edit each page, then maintain the two in parallel.
Its one of those ideas that sounds OK - until you actually think about it.
(* or "alternate" as the en_US version of this comment would say.)