"The Cunctator" skribis:
On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 11:00, Jimmy Wales wrote:
Gareth Owen wrote:
koyaanisqatsi@nupedia.com writes:
Aside from that, how would the move to en. be an inconvenience aside from having to log in?
Link rot
Can you expand on this?
I don't think anyone is proposing that www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson would ever not work as it does now. It would be a pure alias for en.wikipedia.com.
My understanding is that people are proposing that the www urls be made into redirects, not pure aliases, or even links to various language entries, or a redirect to the to-be-created portal page, or to the to-be-created foundation, at some point.
My understanding is:
(1) http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson should be the same page as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson.
Maybe it could be a 301 redirect (from www to en) - where is the problem?
(2) We should not use http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/* for anything else in the future.
(3) The portal page should be at http://www.wikipedia.org/, anything that is about the foundation could for example be in http://www.wikipedia.org/foundation/*, everything about _all_ wikipedias (special functions, etc.) maybe could be in http://www.wikipedia.org/all/*, etc.
There is so much namespace free ...
Paul