What is desired?
- Greater language-neutrality -- this is not an English project with
minor "mere translation" projects -- it is a language neutral project.
- No balkanization -- this is not a confederation of separate language
projects, it is a single project, language neutral.
How should we achieve these things?
I'm not the person being asked, but I think there's a simple solution: www.wikipedia.org should do an HTTP redirect to en.wikipedia.org, de.wikipedia.org or whatever based on the language preference in the browser. If someone who has German in their browser then wants to work on the English WP, they just click on the "English" link on the top, or go to en.wikipedia.org next time instead of www.wikipedia.org. But in general, no language would be preferred, and the browser settings would be honored instead.
Is there any problem with that? I strongly agree with Cunctator and others that a static, language-"neutral" frontpage is a very, very bad idea, esp. from a usability perspective.
Best regards,
Erik Moeller