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Hi Pete/Pcb21,
But why would a French-speaker want to read the Japanese Wikipedia either?
S/he would learn to enter fr.wikipedia.org the next time (or maybe even www.wikipedia.fr, if that exists). But if the French-speaker is actually a German exchange student wanting to learn Japanese it would be helpful to see the possibility. Also it makes wikipedia look like a truly international project, which is a good thing, I'd say.
www.wikipedia.org ends up as not particularly useful to anyone, and hard to make non-ugly.
I like the new proposal (without flags, but with a short intro text).
Thus not much of a benefit, and we have to weigh against the "broken" links to www.wikipedia.org that have built up over the years.
They are not broken. As it was said repeatly, www.wikipedia.org/ Something still links to en.wikipedia.org/Something, and the mere extra click necessary to go to "English" doesn't count as a broken link in my eyes. (Maybe we should add a <ugly> pop-up box explaining all English users that there are other languages, indeed; and that they should bookmark en.wikipedia.org (or go to www.wikipedia.us) if they don't want to see them.</ugly>).
Till
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