In Wikipedia Is there a way to remove the "In other languages:" list of languages?

Its several lines of text at the top of Wikipedia that I have no use for. Sometimes it takes up a quarter of the screen.

I have my preferences set to use the Classic skin and there are at times several lines of other languages.

It seems unusual that that would be at the top of your page. I just checked a sample page and the 'In other languages' section was well down the left margin, below the logo, 'Navigation', 'Search' and 'Toolbox' sections. It was in a smaller font, to the side, and shouldn't be in the way at all.

Are you running a current browser? Wikipedia works best with Firefox 2, and should be about as good with IE7. It is possible that something has broken how your browser interprets CSS.

Ask a friend to show you what the same Wikipedia pages look like on their computer monitor, and see if it looks the same.

Are you maybe talking about Wikimedia Commons, http://commons.wikimedia.org? They have a "in other languages" bar on many pages, as you described.

It is possible to move things around or make them disappear entirely if you have an account and know CSS. There is not a built in feature in Mediawiki (the software that Wikipedia runs on) that would allow you to disable the "in other languages" bar.