Type http://en.wikipedia.org remove that www from the browser

Ginu George wrote: I think NSK knew that, but was pointing out it should redirect. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

On Thursday 17 February 2005 14:40, Ginu George wrote: Yes, of course I know that, but in many cases browsers add a www. For example, I am used to press the down arrow key after I type an address, because this causes Konqueror to add www. To understand better what I mean, you need to see how I use my browser: 1. If I want to visit my website, I type wikinerds.org and I press the down key arrow, so the browser takes me to http://www.wikinerds.org 2. When I wanted to visit English Wikipedia before the introduction of the Portal, I was just typing wikipedia.org and then I was pressing the down arrow key. So I was being redirected to http://en.wikipedia.org 3. Now, I *should* type en.wikipedia.org and press Enter to visit directly the English Wikipedia, but because I was used to the down arrow key before, many times I still press it and I end up at http://www.en.wikipedia.org I am sure I am not the only surfer which does that mistake, so I think a dns alias www.en would be useful. Users are too used to www.

NSK <nsk2 <at> wikinerds.org> writes: http://www.nl.wikipedia.org works. But that is only because I asked it when NL moved to faseIII. It is true that it whould be good if *.XX.wikiPROJECT.org whoud point to something. Best to xx.wikiPROJECT.org.