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Hi Ronald,
Another point: If an english tourist is traveling in Poland or the Ukraine, but chooses to write wikipedia articles on the road, should they be compelled to see a website that they cannot understand, before they can get to a website that they do understand? While some countries may have an official "native" language, it does not follow that all people who are writing articles from a given country prefer to (or can) speak the local language.
True. But why should an english tourist traveling in Poland use wikipedia.pl instead of wikipedia.co.uk (or even en.wikipedia.org) he or she uses to open up wikipedia at home?
I thing our international domains (that is .com, even if the US doesn't see it so, .org, .net and maybe an .edu) should link to the portal, and all geographic top level domains (co.uk, pl, de, ...) should link to either a specific portal if the political entity is strongly multilingual (.ch) or to TLD.wikipedia.org.
I also would like to say I like Magnus proposal to highlight the browser preference language in some way. __ . / / / / ... Till Westermayer - till we *) . . . mailto:till@tillwe.de . www.westermayer.de/till/ . icq 320393072 . Hirschstraße 5. 79100 Freiburg . 0761 55697152 . 0160 96619179 . . . . .