Daniel Mayer wrote:

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I kinda like the idea of doing the reverse now; have all the language wikis at www.wikipedia.org via the syntax www.wikipedia.org/xx/ where xx is the language code. Brion is floating a similar idea over at the meta

http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughts_on_language_integration

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However his proposal leaves-out the www which I think is a mistake since www.foobar.org is universally recognized as an Internet address whereas forbar.org is not.

(anything).com is universally recognized as an internet address. Is .org really so unknown? Never been to slashdot.org?

Yes I visit /. daily. Our motto here isn't "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters", I think our audience is not as technically inclined as the /. crowd is on average. www.string.org also is nicely balanced and elegant looking whereas string.org is one-sided and looks like a file name (to me at least).

www.string.org vs string.org

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I like this idea because every language will then have the promotional benefit of being at the www.wikipedia.org address and no language is left at the rather odd looking, IMO, xx.wikipedia.org. This also improves the url for the English Wikipedia; instead of being at the redundant www.wikipedia.org/wiki/ it will be at the cleaner www.wikipedia.org/en/

Still got the redundant www. Www provides nothing that http:// doesn't, and in today's webcentric Internet little that .com, .org, .de, .foobar doesn't.

But http:// is terrifying to many of the technically uninclined -- therefore having the www buffer is nice. If we were a techy website I would have to agree that the www is not needed and is wasted keystrokes, but we are not a techy website (or at least we shouldn't be).

But, if everyone loves the wuh wuh wuh, I can't complain too much. Both ways can be allowed whichever one is canonical.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

This isn't that important so I will yield to the popular will as well without much protest.

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)

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