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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