PLEASE change it back. I don’t agree with Roger’s concerns and think sending people to the portal is absolutely the right way to go. Even worse than sending English readers to the English Wikivoyage directly is sending NON-English readers to the English version directly.
It’s extremely important that we show people how many language versions we have. Direct people to the PORTAL; do not assume what language version they want to read!!
Come on, people.
Powers &8^]
-----Original Message-----
From: Thehelpfulone
[mailto:thehelpfulonewiki@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday 15 January 2013
06:46
To: Wikivoyage Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Wikivoyage-l]
Wikivoyage launch central notice
On Jan 14, 2013, at 10:22 PM, roger@rogerchrisman.com wrote:
>
> So I think we want the URL to be '''//en.wikivoyage.org''' for _all
> translations_ except only the 8 non-English versions of Wikivoyage
> (de, es, fr, it, nl, pt, ru, sv) which could link to their respective
> version.
>
> The biggest number of banner impressions will be on en.Wikipedia of
> course. Could someone who is an admin on Meta and knows how to do
> central notice translation edits take care of setting the URLs to
> //en.wikivoyage.org, especially for "en" please?
Done, but I left the default for the non-existent language versions to go to the portal instead of directly to en.wikivoyage - that probably needs more discussion. Expect the level of traffic received thus far to at least double as users will now directly going to enwikivoyage.
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Thehelpfulone