On Jan 6, 2005, at 1:38 AM, Grégoire Colbert wrote:
Mi volas scii kial la adreso http://www.wikipedia.org kondukas automate al la adreso http://en.wikipedia.org... Chu Wikipedia estas angla projekto kun tradukoj, au chu ghi vere estas internacia?
Wikipedia originally was a single English-language project which sat at http://www.wikipedia.com/. Later other languages were added, eg http://de.wikipedia.com/. After a year or so we moved all the wikipedia.com addresses to wikipedia.org. Some months later, we moved the English-language wiki from http://www.wikipedia.org/ to a language-coded domain to match everything else: http://en.wikipedia.org/. The old domain names redirect to the new locations to avoid breaking old links.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)