[Wikipedia-l] Moving the wikis (en.wikipedia.org vs www.wikipedia.org/xx/)

[tarquin]

Daniel Mayer wrote:

>I kinda like the idea of doing the reverse now; have
>all the language wikis at www.wikipedia.org via the
>syntax www.wikipedia.org/xx/ where xx is the language
>code. Brion is floating a similar idea over at the
>meta
>http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughts_on_language_integration
>. However his proposal leaves-out the www which I
>think is a mistake since www.foobar.org is universally
>recognized as an Internet address whereas forbar.org
>is not. I like this idea because every language will
>then have the promotional benefit of being at the
>www.wikipedia.org address and no language is left at
>the rather odd looking, IMO, xx.wikipedia.org. This
>also improves the url for the English Wikipedia;
>instead of being at the redundant
>www.wikipedia.org/wiki/ it will be at the cleaner
>www.wikipedia.org/en/ 
>
Fine by me.
The fundamental aim of the "www to en" move was to give all the 
different languages URLs that are perceived as "equal".
This new proposal to move to www.wikipedia.org/xx/ would also achieve 
that aim.
And I agree, it's better too.
and www.wikipedia.org can be the portal page with Goethe & co ;)