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

[Daniel Mayer]

--- Mark Pellegrini <mapellegrini at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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.

Doing this was the general consensus a very long time ago (about a year ago I
think). The only real issue was that noone could come up with a good technical
solution that most people liked. That still seems to be the case.

Instead we should have a design competition in order to encourage the creation
of better solutions on what to put at www.wikipedia.org. 

-- mav


	
		
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