From: "elian" elian@gmx.li
So we continue our current procedure to hide the other language wikipedias from the user. It doesn't mind that I speak five languages, I have to be happy with the German wikipedia because it's point one in my browser settings. And if my Spanish friends use my computer for surfing, they get German, too, even if they speak no German at all. And the Japanese student at the German university library computer gets German, too, even if he would be a lot more interested in the japanese wikipedia.
This front page could simply redirect to the preferred language. Of course, you can still pick a certain language by entering through es.wikipeda.org or jp.wikipedia.org which would be not any different from the current situation. In addition, you could follow the interlink from the homepage to the language you want. These interlinks as well as the links on the page "Wikipedia in other languages" will also enable google&co to find all other pedias, no matter through which language they come in.
Sorry, I can't see any additional value from such a front page.
The advantage would be an URL easy to remember for everyone since it starts with the common "www" instead of a the rather unusual language code. It could also help to overcome the concerns of non-English wikipedians that the English pedia is treated different.
Sven (Ben-Zin)