I would also like to know why this was changed. It's the first I've heard of it!
TSBDY
Mark Pellegrini 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.
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