This was probably mentioned before, but why don't we just change "meta.wikipedia.org" to "www.wikipedia.org"? We could adapt the main page accordingly, and move the current meta main page to something like "assorted diskussion". That way, we won't have but a single page at www.wikipedia.org, but all the (international) discussion about it.

Magnus

But then where does the Wikipedia Foundation go? Metapedia is a completely different animal than any of the Wikipedia encyclopedias with totally different rules (thus the light gray background was added to emphasize this difference). It would be most odd to land on www.wikipedia.org, hit Recent Changes and see random discussion and POV essays. That's not our primary mission here. If anything www.wikipedia.org should eventually be where we have a wiki for the Foundation and have that Recent Changes by default display Recent Changes for all edits made in each Wikipedia encyclopedia (along with the occassional edit or translation for a Foundation page). Granted, that would mean a near static wiki at www.wikipedia.org but how often are we really going to be changing the by-laws and constitution (GNU.org hasn't made many changes to their text for a very long time)? The main function of the wiki at www.wikipedia.org is to give a broad overview of the whole project and the Foundation and also be a gateway to each of the wikipedia encyclopedias and display all edits in all languages.

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)

PS It might also be neat to automatically detect the language a person's browser is using and display all links and text at www.wikipedia.org in the same language as the browser (with the ability to turn this off if needed). We are already going to have to translate all Foundation pages and localized Main Pages in several different languages. Therefore a user with a French browser will be greeted by an uber Main Page/Portal at www.wikipedia.org that is in French. All the links will be in French and all the Foundation pages that have French translations will be in French. Just some thoughts.

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