Anthere (anthere9@yahoo.com) [050107 17:10]:
I was among those who objected more than 2 years ago. I believe most of the objections raised at that time do not make any more sense. A lot was written on the mailing list, and some discussion may be found here : http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/What_to_do_with_www.wikipedia.org. I do not think there were be links broken now. We switch the adress more than 2 years ago, the encyclopedia is so much bigger now, and we had truely become international (which was not true 3 years ago at all). It is high time we finally get a portal page.
I agree. The links that might be broken would be links to en: articles, so those should still be set to redirect; but the front page (http://www.wikipedia.org/ or http://wikipedia.org/) should be international.
Perhaps a list of languages, with the search box for that language next to it - to make it as useful as possible. Perhaps the Article of the Day for the biggest ones.
But that's just details. Th front page should be international.
- d.