most people did not think that having www.wikipedia.org as a multi-language portal would be stupid. When I promote Wikipedia, I want to promote the project *as a whole*, but I'm certainly not going to promote www.wikipedia.org which goes to a webpage in English if I'm promoting the in an Esperanto magazine and I doubt people who are promoting the German, Polish, Dutch, Spanish, etc would want to point to that page either.

I know a lot of people who thought the Esperanto Wikipedia was the only language that existed in the project and I'd imagine that we're not alone in this. I started promoting www.vikipedio.org because people got confused when we promoted eo.wikipedia.org.

I also know a lot of people who don't speak English who simply click off a page if they see that it's not in a language they understand, thus they'd never get past the English front page of Wikipedia. Also, a dropdown box like we use at www.tejo.org might work as well, instead of the portal as planned, but I think the multilingual portal at www.wikipedia.org is necessary.

Also, what's wrong if people have linked to www.wikipedia.org from their webpages. It will still go to Wikipedia, they don't need to change their links! The Wikipedia is a multilingual project, not just an English project. Plus, this is one of the reasons why the Spanish project won't merge back with us.

I'm crossposting this on Intlwiki-L and Wikipedia-L so all can participate. I recommend that we continue this discussion on Wikipedia-L.

Thanks, Chuck

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