Stephen Gilbert wrote:
I want it on the record that I am neither a telephone sanitizer nor a hair-dresser. ;-)
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It simply means I'm against the static front page idea. I don't think it solves any fundamental problems, but that's not the point; even if it was *only* a symbolic gesture of goodwill I would support it. However, I believe it would be harmful to the project as a whole, not just the English language part of the project.
A static portal might not be the final word -- it could be replaced by the unified RC proposal or something else. I'm not arguing for a portal specifically -- * equality of urls * something language-neutral or language-sniffing at www.---
Wikipedia is already damaged by the EL fork. It was a huge blow to the project, and I see it as a loss of credibility. When I visit the fr:pedia I see banter in talk pages along the lines of "policy x is good, that's what the en:pedia adopted" -- "so what? we'll just fork if they don't like it!" It maybe just banter, but it worries me. I would gladly bleed wikipedia now to prevent loss of other limbs.