----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthere" anthere5@yahoo.com To: wikipedia-l@nupedia.com Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 2:19 AM Subject: Re: [Intlwiki-l] Re: [Wikipedia-l] en.wikipedia.org vs www.wikipedia.org and the Wikipedia family
--- Gareth Owen wiki@gwowen.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
Anthere anthere5@yahoo.com writes:
But, from a conceptual point of view, that is
certainly not a portal. That's
an *english* main page, with links to other
languages. Sorry, but I like
words to be used in their context.
What the hell *is* a portal (besides a internet buzzword from about 1997)
Is this type of question designed to make me sound as if I had absolutely no idea what I am talking about, or not worth listening because not using the best word, or designed to slow down any thinking process by drawing out a *detail*, or what ??
If such is your concern, explain *yourself* what *you* think is a portal, or better, explain what should be www.wikipedia.org page to your opinion.
There's a good description of what makes a portal on the page http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_portal. We probably don't want to implement all of the features mentioned in the article but then again we should implement most of them if we are going to the length of calling http://www.wikipedia.org it a portal.
Cheers
Derek