On 15/01/07, PeruvianLlama peruvianllama@gmail.com wrote: (snip)
What I mean to say is that if moving the Main Page right now will be a pain because of server strain and internal/external link updating, then does it not follow that this will be even more of a pain once we have another year's worth of edit histories, and another year's worth of internal/external links floating around? And by extension, it will be all the more worse with five years' worth, and ten years' worth, etc.
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I see your point; if we're going to have to change its name, it's probably better to do it sooner rather than later.
I personally don't subscribe to the "OMG think of all the broken links" line of thinking. We wouldn't be silly enough to shift the Main Page and leave it a red link.
I think the best thing to do would be to make a non-wiki-page portal for our front page, like we have for www.wikipedia.org. It would be editable from a MediaWiki page somewhere, but would be full HTML coding, so we could get rid of the Monobook skin for the front page, and put all our effort into making the front page the sort of page people would set as their home page.
~Mark Ryan