[Wikipedia-l] Re: Wikis and uniformity

Karl Eichwalder ke at gnu.franken.de
Sun Jul 20 08:48:59 UTC 2003


Daniel Mayer <maveric149 at yahoo.com> writes:

> No - we are one project at one website. It was a mistake to internationalize 
> based on subdomains because it incorrectly gives the impression that we are 
> on different websites. A much better system is to have internationalization 
> based on folders; http://wikipedia.org/en/ = English version, 
> http://wikipedia.org/de/ = German version, ect. 

No :) I'd expect http://wikipedia.org/en/, http://wikipedia.org/de/,
http://wikipedia.org/fr/, etc. would be identical contently, just
translated.  Using subdomains means there will be subtle differences
concerning contents, layout, etc.

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