Walter Vermeir a écrit:

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Hello,

I want to know why the address

http://www.wikipedia.org redirects

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automatically to http://en.wikipedia.org... Is

Wikipedia an english

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project with translations, or is it a real

international project?

I asked myself that same question many years ago. I

think I posted the

first question about this on some wikipedia list at

the end of 2001.

Always a lot of objections. It would break links,

English is the lingo

franca of the internet. At the time of the change

from wikipedia.com to

wikipedia.org used to a opportunity to do it but it

has not be done.

Wikipedia is a international project. But only the

English may use the

front entrance.

I was among those who objected more than 2 years ago. I believe most of the objections raised at that time do not make any more sense. A lot was written on the mailing list, and some discussion may be found here : http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/What_to_do_with_www.wikipedia.org.

I do not think there were be links broken now. We switch the adress more than 2 years ago, the encyclopedia is so much bigger now, and we had truely become international (which was not true 3 years ago at all).

It is high time we finally get a portal page.

There were other solutions mentionned 2 years and a half ago, but I think portal is the solution chosen for all our projects, so best to stick with it probably.

However, it might be nice to try to do something good looking and not necessarily wiki (we do not need the left menu for example).

I suggest that some people try to come up with some good designs and that we get done with this. For example, this might be a conceptual proposition (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/What_to_do_with_www.wikipedia.org-mav%27s_Pro...) but it could need a graphist to polish it.

I hope someone come up with a good idea :-)

Could someone set up a contest page, where we could add considerations to respect and where wikipedians could link their proposal ?

Anthere

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