tarquin wrote:
At any rate, have we agreed on the move from www. to en. ?
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 . 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. 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/
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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On 10/15/02 3:04 PM, "Daniel Mayer" maveric149@yahoo.com wrote:
tarquin wrote:
At any rate, have we agreed on the move from www. to en. ?
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 . 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. 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/
Though I think this is a mistaken priority, this is definitely a step in the right direction.
Daniel Mayer wrote:
tarquin wrote:
At any rate, have we agreed on the move from www. to en. ?
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 . 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?
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, 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)
Daniel Mayer wrote:
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 . 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. 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/
Fine by me. The fundamental aim of the "www to en" move was to give all the different languages URLs that are perceived as "equal". This new proposal to move to www.wikipedia.org/xx/ would also achieve that aim. And I agree, it's better too. and www.wikipedia.org can be the portal page with Goethe & co ;)
Mav wrote:
Tarquin wrote:
At any rate, have we agreed on the move from www. to en. ?
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.
Mav, you're just making it harder for us by complicating the issue.
What's especially hard about it is that you are absolutely right; I'm with you.
-- Toby
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