On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 12:41:38 -0500, Sj 2.718281828@gmail.com wrote:
I've been largely offline for the past week, and didn't see the initial conversation; afaict the idea of a portal seems to have gone from suggestion on wikipedia-l to reality in the span of a day, without notice on the en wikipedia.
I singled out the en: wikipedia because anyone using URL shortcuts, or posting links to "wikipedia.org" and expecting them to get to the en: main page, would have -- until last week -- intended to direct readers to en.