[Wikipedia-l] en.wikipedia.org vs www.wikipedia.org and the Wikipedia family

[Daniel Mayer]

Paul Ebermann wrote;
>My understanding is:
>
>(1) http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson
>should be the same page as
>    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson.

www.wikipedia.com/wiki/ and www.wikipedia.org/wiki/
will point to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/. So yes.

>...

>(2)
>We should not use
>    http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/*
>for anything else in the future.

I agree - it should only be used to redirect people to
en.wiki in order to preserve current links from
outside Wikipedia. 

>(3)
>The portal page should be at
>    http://www.wikipedia.org/,

I also agree here. 

>anything that is about the foundation
>could for example be in
>    http://www.wikipedia.org/foundation/*,

Why not simply www.wikipedia.org/ ? The word
"foundation" is still in English which isn't necessary
and might seem odd as the URL for the French
translation of the by-laws.

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)


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