[WikiEN-l] www.wikipedia.org no longer redirects to the en main page

[Mark Pellegrini]

I'd like to start out by noting that www.wikipedia.org no longer redirects
to the english
wikipedia's main page. Instead, it's been turned into a replica of the
language template.
Deeper links ( www.wikipedia.org/wiki/name_of_article ) still work, but the
main page
does not.

First of all, this is a MAJOR, MAJOR change and was totally unannounced. Nor
did anyone in the community get a chance to object before it was put into
place.
(Because I suspect there would have been a major outcry)

Second of all, I cannot fathom why the this was changed. By now, there's a
huge
inertia behind the fact that www.wikipeda.org links to the english main
page.
This is going to break *MANY* links, bookmarks, etc. We (the english
Wikipedia) are
goings to lose significant number of potential contributors because of this.

Why the hell was this changed? Why was no one told before hand, or even
afterward?

--Mark