Jaap van Ganswijk wrote:
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