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

[Jimmy Wales]

The Cunctator wrote:
> There are many reasons that www.google.com, www.dmoz.org,
> etc. (which all have multilanguage settings) have English as the default,
> and it's not just that the servers are US-based).

I suppose the main reason is that more people on the Internet can read
English than any other language.

> 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.

I agree very much with the first conception, although I wouldn't
necessarily use the word 'translations'.

--Jimbo