Jaap van Ganswijk wrote:
I think it should be: http://www.nl.wikipedia.org/ http://www.be.wikipedia.org/ http://www.pt.wikipedia.org/ http://www.eo.wikipedia.org/ etc.
I do not. I find it not a good idea to make a url longer if there is no good reasen for it. For those users that get confused if a url does not start whit WWW there can be a redirect form http://www.nl.wikipedia.org to http://nl.wikipedia.org. That is more than enough.
I think that the english version should have two names: http://www.en.wikipedia.org/ and http://www.wikipedia.org/
www.wikipedia.com can be a redirect to en.wikipedia.org Just like nl.wikipedia.com to nl.wikipedia.org (and for the other wikipedia's also offcourse) And http://www.en.wikipedia.org redirect to http://en.wikipedia.org
Let's face it, English is the lingua franca on the internet!
Yes, but most English speaking nations are allready online. In following years many, many non-english users will com online. I think on china and so. I agree that English is more or less the lingua franca on the internet for the moment. But for how long ? Nobody knows ...
Otherwise we could make: http://www.wikipedia.org/ to be the 'portal' to the subdomains, but in which language should it be?
That is my idea, www.wikipedia.org for presentation and information about the project. The education about the GNU/FDL-license. Things like that ... The default language should be English. Only the English wikipedia has the resources to do that, the others are mutch to small at present. But whit the possiblity to change to a different if the there is a translation.
In the future, when there is need for mony, the .com domain can possibly be used for a readonly-wikipedia whit advertisment.
giskart