On 10/10/02 6:41 PM, "Daniel Mayer" <maveric149(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
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Granted the English Wikipedia is the oldest
and largest but it shouldn't be vaulted as /The Main/
Wikipedia with the other languages relegated to second
class status in The Main WIkipedia's shadow.
By the same token, the English-lang Wikipedia is the oldest and largest (by
far), and it shouldn't be shoved around simply for the sake of political
correctness.
The Main
Wikipedia is the /whole/ project which includes all
languages not just one, no?
I agree that the Wikipedia project includes all languages. Whether changing
www.wikipedia.org to a portal page is a good idea is a different question.
I furthermore don't see a
move as Balkanization when we will soon all be on the
same software, all use the same Metapedia and all have
interlanguage links going back and forth from all the
different languages. I now will often take info from
articles in other languages to update their English
counterparts and I also see the reverse being done by
non-English Wikipedias.
All those things are exactly what I agree with.
www.wikipedia.org should be
home for the Foundation and a portal to each of the
different language sub-projects as I stated in my
previous post. The English Wikipedia would be just one
click away from the portal and so would all the other
wikipedias. This is only fair.
Fairness is a very squishy issue. Is it only fair that states with
populations of 600,000 get the same number of Senators as states with
populations of 35,000,000?
It would be a poor idea for
www.wikipedia.org become the foundation url.
It should have its own url, much as
gnu.org and
fsf.org are separately
named.