What's the very good reason? That it's been like that forever? That's not a reason.
As long as article URLs can find their way to en.wikipedia, the .co.uk article should redirect to http://www.wikipedia.org/ . No specific country URL should redirect to a specific Wikipedia, at least when it's a URL we have control over, and even country-specific portals (ie the ch-portal) might inconvenience users whose language falls outside of the languages included in the portal.
How much will it inconvenience somebody who tries to go to http://wikipedia.co.uk/ to end up at a site asking them to select their language?
Mark
On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 15:41:13 +1100, Tim Starling t.starling@physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
NSK wrote:
On Sunday 09 January 2005 05:57, Tim Starling wrote:
wikipedia.co.uk -> en.wikipedia.org
There is no reason to have co.uk redirect to .org because English is not the only language spoken in the United Kingdom.
There's a very good reason for having that redirect set up. It's been like that forever, we don't have a portal, and I couldn't be bothered making one. Write one yourself if it concerns you so much.
-- Tim Starling.
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