mav wrote:

In our rush for the URL switch, it would have been a mistake just to put up a static page at www.wikipedia.org that merely directed users to each language's Main Page. IMO what really is needed is a combined Recent Changes at www.wikipedia.org. That way somebody landing at www.wikipedia.org can look to the top of their page, hit Recent Changes and see the last 100 edits made for the whole project (each language). Until that is possible, I don't think a gateway page will work at all.

This to me is a fascinating idea, and much more attractive than the portal as we proposed it. You could see a streamlined Recent Changes page, showing only what changes were made to what article where, e.g.

* [[Fig]] [English]; 01:11 * [[Kommunismus]] [Deutsch]; 01:12 * [[The Elephant Man]] [Français]; 01:12 * [[PNG]] [Polski]; 01:13 * [[Stephen Spielberg]] [Español]; 01:14 * [[François Rabelais]] [English]; 01:14

It might be more enticing than a static portal page.

kq