[Wikipedia-l] Re We started in January 2001...

--- The Cunctator <cunctator(a)kband.com> wrote: http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_to_do_with_www.wikipedia.org Ok. So now we are on similar grounds. But what about voicing why you think this ill-conceived ? While I said yesterday why I thought it was not necessary a bad idea from a technical point of view, I had the following thoughts The www.wikipedia.org is a very important address. Must be used accordingly. What is important in wikipedia (for users) is first of all *content*. Hence it is maybe not best that this address is used for the foundation, which should come far after contents. The actual page as proposed is not containing any content, just info about the concept of Wikipedia (very important I agree nevertheless) and redirection to other places. What makes Wikipedia different from other encyclopedias ? *reactivity*. Because we do not rely on paper (bought once in a lifetime) or peer review (hence delays in publications), the power of wikipedia is that we can come up with an actual subject very quickly. So why wouldnot this "portal" page be, in particular, a place where actualities are on the front ? People would maybe put www.wikipedia.org as a place (link) where to drop by very frequently to keep updated with info probably less biaised than their newspaper, and with much more background ! The news wouldnot be as quickly there as in www.lemonde.fr but within a couple of days is much much better than much encyclos can do. Then, why would not these links toward actual subjects or background subject of actual issues, be in several languages when available Something like Current events * Israeli-Palestinian conflict (English) -- "title in spanish" (spanish) * John Walker Lindh (english) -- "title in japanese" (japanese) * Claus von Amsberg (English) -- Claus von Amsberg (n�erlandais) * Bertrand Delano� (fran�ais) -- Bertrand Delanoe (English) * Nobel Prize (English) -- Prix Nobels (fran�ais) * Eldred v. Ashcroft (English) * Jimmy Carter (English) my excuses, I don't necessarily the translations for each langages. The idea is just to * provide content * put current events coverage or background in the front, something other encyc can't offer * made obvious several langages are available * put each of these langages at the same level * generate a little bit more of competition and collaboration between each langage if they want to have at least one page in their langage here (just thinking here, I wrote these articles on Maurice Papon and Bertrand Delano� in english but didnot really bothered to translate them in french :-))) We could have something a bit equivalent with a couple of brillant prose articles in each langage, these changing from time to time... just random thoughts Anthere __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com