At 2002-08-18 23:58 +0200, Giskart wrote:
Stephen Gilbert wrote:
At the same time of a possibel switch and the creation of the non-proffit organisation it is a good time for considering to use the domain www.wikipedia.org as the website for this non-proffit organisation en general information and promotion for all the Wikipedia's. The English Wikipedia can use en.wikipedia.org
The problem with that suggestion is that it would break thousands of links across the web.
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.
I think it should be: http://www.nl.wikipedia.org/ http://www.be.wikipedia.org/ http://www.pt.wikipedia.org/ http://www.eo.wikipedia.org/ etc.
I think that the english version should have two names: http://www.en.wikipedia.org/ and http://www.wikipedia.org/
Let's face it, English is the lingua franca on the internet!
Otherwise we could make: http://www.wikipedia.org/ to be the 'portal' to the subdomains, but in which language should it be?
I think all, the *.wikipedia.com sites should jump to the appropriate *.org page, but at the same time notifying intelligent search engines etc. that the page was moved and links to it should be changed.
By the way, my own *chipdir* sites have so many non-correct links to them, that I gave up to ever get it right. Years ago when the MS-DOS/CD-ROM 8.3 filesystem names where still quite dominant I changed all the .html files to .htm files. I still UNIX-link the main .htm files to .html filenames or I would loose to many visitors (I guess).
I also wrote a PHP-script to check out links in pages (mainly for in the chipdir) and there are so many sites out there that don't return the correct page result codes (404 and such), that it's hard to ever straighten that system out! There is a test version on: http://www.ii.nl/jaap/checkurl.php Please ignore all the error message (about the script), just fill in an URL in any of the two boxes and click it's button. When you fill in http://www.wikipedia.com/ it may take 5 minutes or so, since all links will be checked...
Don't use the script too check complete sites, it's on a server hired by a friend. Email me for the source if you want it. I don't mind GPL'ing it. My local version may be improved in the mean time.
Greetings, Jaap
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