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. That would be consistent with the theory that the only fair thing to do is to have total language-equivalence in urls.
People have floated having www be reserved for a) a portal and b) the administration/organization. That would seem to preclude pure aliases for entries.