On 10/24/02 3:00 PM, "Toby Bartels" toby+wikipedia@math.ucr.edu wrote:
The Cunctator wrote in part:
Jimmy Wales wrote:
The Cunctator wrote:
elian wrote:
Changing the front page into something like this is a profoundly bad idea.
What are your specific objections?
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- This kind of page promotes the view that Wikipedia is a coalition of
largely distinct projects, balkanized by language (and implicitly branded by nationality). I think this is very much the wrong approach.
OTC, this is what the current system does. An international <www.*> is primarily being advanced to fix precisely this problem.
Note: the current page says "Welcome to Wikipedia, a collaborative project to produce a free and complete encyclopedia in every language."
Elian's page says something similar to the above, but also says: "Below you will find welcome messages and links to each of our active Wikipedia language projects."
I challenge you to demonstrate that it is not the case that the above sentence promotes the view that Wikipedia is a coalition of largely distinct projects, balkanized by language.
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Specifically, elian's suggestion can't be done without coding, which is why mav is right to say that we need to get an integrated Phase IV software (PediaWiki 4.0), allowing integrated Recentchanges, integrated searches, etc.
We do this first, and I'll be happy. I've been suggesting this long before mav had. But I'm glad he agrees with me.