It occurs to me that one big problem with finding a satisfactory "international" front page on www is that it is protected, due to being a big target for vandals. When the page is not protected, people will naturally edit and re-edit until a satisfactory compromise is reached.

I wonder what would happen if we unprotected the home page for a few days, with the *express plan* of trying to do something more international there?

Right now, we have international links: - at the top of the frontpage - at the bottom of the frontpage - in the right part of the frontpage table, under "In other languages" - behind the link "multilingual", the third word of the intro text.

I've probably missed something because there's so darn many of them. Still, through some amazing editing, we have managed to fit some actual information about the English Wikipedia on the page. I fail to see why we should remove even more of that information. No other Wikipedia gives as much prominence to the other languages.

We will move www->en eventually. But please, let's see some priorities. All Wikipedias were down in the last few hours because of some bizarre MySQL problems. I'm sure we have more skilled database engineers than are currently on the wikitech-l mailing list. So if the other language Wikipedias want to actually help, in real, mutual cooperation, then get us some hackers. That will also speed up the www->en transition process.

Regards,

Erik