[Wikipedia-l] Moving the English Wikipedia to en.wikipedia.org

[Brion VIBBER]

We haven't decided yet exactly what to make the new www.wikipedia.org 
project front page look like, but it seems pretty well decided that we 
do want to move the English wiki to en.wikipedia.org and set up some 
sort of multilingual and/or browser-language-setting-sensitive intro page.

(See: http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_to_do_with_www.wikipedia.org )

If there's no objection, I'm going to switch the URL redirecting around 
tomorrow, so that www.wikipedia.org/* points to en.wikipedia.org/* 
rather than the other way 'round. A new intro page can later be set up 
at convenience.

Warning: login cookies won't automatically follow over, so everyone 
using the English wiki will have to log in afresh after the switch even 
if you've got "remember my password" checked.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)