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

[lcrocker at nupedia.com]

>> When writing on Phase II, I was thinking about little flags for the
>> different languages. We'd just need a merged GB/US flag for
>> en.wikipedia.com...

> I don't like flags, and I guess many others also don't like them.
> If we really need some kind picture to represent a language, then
> please let's choose an image of a famous person who used this
> language to produce something important/famous/extraordinary/...

I don't like the idea of a "portal" page at all, and the idea
of using flags is even worse; flags represent /countries/, and
the very concept of "country" is something I want nothing to do
with.

I do, however, like the idea of representing languages with images
of famous contributors in that language; this could be used in
lots of places writing about Wikipedia.  I'd suggest Shakespeare,
Hugo, Cervantes as the obvious English/French/Spanish ones.
I don't know who would be appropriate for the others.