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

[Krzysztof P. Jasiutowicz]

On 10-10-2002, The Cunctator wrote thusly :
> On 10/10/02 2:42 PM, "The Cunctator" <cunctator at kband.com> wrote:
> > A big question that we are in the process of resolving now is whether we
> > want to think of Wikipedia as a single project that has multiple
> > translations, or as a bunch of largely independent projects specific to
> > particular nations and language sets. I think the first conception is
> > healthier and more productive over the long term. We really should think
> > about this issue before we take broad actions that touch upon it.
> Let me clarify the above statement: by "a single project that has multiple
> translations" I don't mean "English + translations into other languages" I
> mean "a single language-neutral encyclopedia with entries in all different
> languages, with the goal that every entry exist in every language". That is,
> I think we should think of the entries in English as being translations of
> the French entries, and the Polish entries, and vice versa.
> Ideally, if an entry exists in one language but not another, such as "racine
> Grecque"  (http://fr.wikipedia.com/wiki.cgi?Racine_Grecque) a link to the
> unwritten [[Greek root]] should pull up a result that indicates that there's
> a version of the entry in French.
> I hope this clarifies this conceptualization of Wikipedia.
This is my pet idea to notify every other Wikipedia of the appearance of
lengthy, well fleshed out on any Wikipedia.
Creating a compilation of recent changes seems to be awkward and
resource consuming.

So what are other proposals to put this ideas into being ?

Regards,
Kpjas.