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

koyaanisqatsi at nupedia.com koyaanisqatsi at nupedia.com
Sun Oct 13 14:34:35 UTC 2002


Anthere Wrote:
>In Wikipedia case, most people will only go to one of
>the links most of time. So a portal is not very
>interesting maybe? Except if on the second connexion,
>the user is directly brought to the right
>xx.wikipedia.org. Otherwise, it is a lack of time.
>
>But if on the second connexion the user is brought to
>the xx.wikipedia.org, he will rarely go to the
>www.wikipedia.org and maybe is it loosing something.
>No ?
>
>Besides, you will notice I used the word "partners". A
>portal tends to atomize things rather than to
>interlink  them.
>
>Does what I say make more sense now ? Do you think I
>am wrong in my feeling or not ? 

You make some good points.  What would you have on the page to make it more consistently useful?

kq







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