On Tuesday 01 October 2002 06:59 am, Vicki wrote:
I wonder if "Huiquipedia" would be more familiar and comfortable to native speakers of Spanish.
I'm not a native Spanish speaker, but I think you are on the right track.
Now that Wikipedia is at .org instead of .com, at least one vocal EL contributor doesn't like the fact that the English Wikipedia is at www.wikipedia.org and the other languages are at xx.wikipedia.org/.com. This person seems to take this URL organization literally and thinks this means that the non-English wikipedias are somehow subservient to the English one. Which is reading /way/ too much in a simple URL.
I'm already on record stating that each wikipedia language community should eventually be at their own domain which is their language's transliteration of the word "Wikipedia".
But if this issue turns out to be an intractable one, I vote for moving the English Wikipedia to en.wikipedia.org -- such a trivial thing is not worth arguing much about. Then all www.wikipedia.org would be is just a gateway to the various projects (I still think this is a waste of a URL but I am willing to acquiesce).
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 01:08:39PM -0700, Daniel Mayer wrote:
But if this issue turns out to be an intractable one, I vote for moving the English Wikipedia to en.wikipedia.org -- such a trivial thing is not worth arguing much about. Then all www.wikipedia.org would be is just a gateway to the various projects (I still think this is a waste of a URL but I am willing to acquiesce).
I like that idea. The main gateway page should attempt to negotiate a preferred language with the browser, too.
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