On 26-10-2002, Toby Bartels wrote thusly :
Anthere wrote in part:
I have been looking a bit around on the "Trophée du Libre" these past two days in case we decide to run for it. To register, we must provide an url for the project we are working on. It seems very natural (obvious) that the url should be www.wikipedia.org, don't you think ? Then, when the jury will look at the project, since they will be probably french, and very likely on a french computer, with french brower set up, if they type www.wikipedia.org, they could be automatically redirected to the french wikipedia. Honestly, do you think a better view of the project will be given on the fr.wiki or on the en.wiki ??? So, what should we do then ? provide en en.wikipedia.org adress instead for a better assessment of what wikipedia is ? That, for sur, would be a big blow to the internationals wikis. So, in case redirection is chosen, which url would you prefer we give ? Let's think a bit about promotion also in this decision.
I think that Anthere has a very good argument here.
Hello all,
Seriously. I agree there seems to be a problem here.
OTOH, if we browser sniff with Neil Harris' modification, which puts international stuff at the top of <www.wikipedia.org> and then put <xx.wikipedia.org> after it, this would still work.
Semi-seriously. If the redirection is the way to go. The multilingual opening page is _automatically_ redirecting after, say 15 seconds, to a page that redirects without delay to the language being the first in browser preferences. If there is no such language version of Wikipedia is redirecting to the second... If the list is exhausted the user lands in the English Wikipedia.
I hope we are not going in circles with this redirection thing ;-)
Regards, Kpjas.