Erik Moeller wrote:
Making www.wikipedia.org a multilingual portal has been suggested by many different people ever since the creation of new languages besides English. I point you, for example, to this summary by Elian written in October 2002, where a large number of people favored a multilingual portal:
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2002-October/024522.html
It's been discussed, but there's never been a clear consensus that we should actually make the chnage.
-Mark