--- Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com wrote:
On Wednesday 16 October 2002 08:56 pm Stephen wrote:
Indeed. Cunc has convinced me that a portal page
is a
bad idea. I think we should be working toward a unified project composed of different languages, rather than remaining the English Wikipedia, the German Wikipedia, the Spanish Wikipedia, etc.
Stephen G.
Ah, I see; One unified project with the most visible and widely known url going only to one language and one language alone.
I didn't say that, mav.
What I would like to see is this. All articles in all languages are in one database. When someone comes to www.wikipedia.org, the server gets the prefered language setting from the visitor's browser, and then serves a Wikipedia front page (similiar to the one we use at the English Wikipedia, but simplified somewhat) and user interface in that language, complete with a search form. At the top of the page would be other language options, just in case the browser's language setting is incorrect. People could then set their prefered language in their Wikipedia preferences.
I think the non-profit foundation should have a separate URL from the encyclopedia.
Stephen G.
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