On 12/31/05, Axel Boldt axelboldt@yahoo.com wrote:
I'm currently collecting peer-reviewed academic articles that cite Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_as_an_academic_source and for whatever reason, several refer to Wikipedia using the address en2.wikipedia.org. Currently that address does not work, which should be fixed. These are printed articles that will sit in the world's libraries forever.
en2.wikipedia.org is a relic from the time that Wikipedia's load balancing consisted of users manually selecting to use en. or en2. The alias shouldn't have been removed.