Rowan Collins wrote:
Lars Aronsson wrote:
Opposition to this move in 2002 held that existing links should not be broken. It was agreed that www.wikipedia.org (and .com) could become an international starting page, but that old article URLs, such as www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Chernobyl should not be broken, but should redirect to the new address on the English Wikipedia. This contract has been held since.
I think talking of this as a "contract" is somewhat overdoing it - it's an important point that this was the compromise reached during a previous discussion, but unless there's a *very* strong statement promising to uphold it "forever", we generally treat all consensus policies as re-negotiable.
There is such a promise.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)