Gerrit Holl wrote:
Lars Aronsson wrote:
Gerrit Holl wrote:
Yes it should. It's a contract.
How's that?
In the beginning (Jan 15, 2001) was the English
www.wikipedia.com,
and then (March 16, 2001) came
deutsche.wikipedia.com. When more
languages were added (summer 2001), two character language codes
were applied. As far as I can see from my e-mail archive, the
idea to move the English Wikipedia to a language code domain was
first suggested on intlwiki-l on March 25, 2002. The oldest
archive.org version of
en.wikipedia.org is from November 2002.
Opposition to this move in 2002 held that existing links should
not be broken. It was agreed that
www.wikipedia.org (and .com)
could become an international starting page, but that old article
URLs, such as
www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Chernobyl should not be
broken, but should redirect to the new address on the English
Wikipedia. This contract has been held since.
An important document should be this archived e-mail,
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/intlwiki-l/2002-March/000361.html
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Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
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