Poor, Edmund W wrote:
All right, then, let's vote:
RESOLVED:
1. That the English language wikipedia step down one level to
www.wikipedia.org/en/ and
2. That
www.wikipedia.org be the language-neutral front page, with
links to the wikipedias of each language.
I think Jimmy promised me a year ago that the old URLs would be
permanently valid. Is this something that can be voted on? Would
http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/William_Shakespeare still be a valid
URL to the article in English on William Shakespeare?
I might have written such URLs into several thousand web pages in
more or less static HTML, e.g.
http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/authors/shakewil.html
When I discover that such links are broken, I remove the links rather
than correct them, since a website that changed their URLs once is
likely to do so again. I don't hate websites that change their URLs,
I just don't link to them.
Wikipedia should have a written policy for URLs, just like the GFDL
license. Why should I want to contribute to a project where all URLs
can be changed by a vote the next month?
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