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

[Khendon]

On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 04:29:50AM -0700, Jimmy Wales wrote:
> lcrocker at nupedia.com wrote:
> > I really hate saying this, but, um, I'm with Cunc here.
> > I also think it's a really bad idea to have www.wikipedia.org
> > be anything but the most direct route to the front page of
> > the English Wikipedia. Like it or not, that's where the
> > action is.  As long as the front page continues to have links
> > to the foreign wikis, I see no need to waste the time of 90%
> > of our users with a pointless "intro" page.
> 
> I agree with this, but what do you think of having all the articles at
> _both_ en.wikipedia.org and www.wikipedia.org, with us subtly promoting
> the latter by hardlinks?

I've not been following this discussion very closely, but why can't
all www. links redirect to a xx. link based on cookie/browser
settings?

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Khendon  (Jason Williams)
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