Giskart wrote:
Are you sure ? If there can be a redirect form www.wikipedia.com/a_articel to www.wikipedia.org/a_articel like it is now done it must be no problem to point www.wikipedia.com/a_articel to en.wikipedia.org/a_articel
There are thousands of links to www.wikipedia.com but not (yet) to www.wikipedia.org . That is the reasen why it is now the time to think about this.
Another possibility is to have: http://www.wikipedia.org/ http://www.wikipedia.com/ http://wikipedia.org/ http://wikipedia.com/ merely be a static page that links to the various languages, while: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/* http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/* http://wikipedia.com/wiki/* http://wikipedia.org/wiki/* would go to the English to preserve existing links, while the canonical urls for such would be: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/*
Unless you'd prefer to move the meta wiki into the www.wikipedia.org place and declare it to be multilingual. (Shudder)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)