What is desired?
1. Greater language-neutrality -- this is not an
English project with
minor "mere translation" projects -- it is a language neutral project.
2. No balkanization -- this is not a confederation of
separate language
projects, it is a single project, language neutral.
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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