[Wikipedia-l] wikipedia.org

[Daniel Mayer]

On Monday 19 August 2002 03:41 pm, you wrote:
> Can still be done later. The problem is the lack of time. If you wait to
> long there are to many links to the new location of the english
> wikipedia that can not be broken. If there is no fundamental objection
> to put the English wikipedia at en.wikipedia.org then that must be done.
> What to do whit www.wikipedia.org can wait (a littel.)
>
> giskart

This is just silly -- we are building an encyclopedia here not an 
organization. There is nothing at all wrong with having the English wikipedia 
at wikipedia.org and have all the pages that are about the English language 
project be in the wikipedia namespace (or in the other languages project 
namespaces). As each language figures out what to call their wikipedia we can 
buy them domain names for that and make sure the xx.wikipedia.com domain 
names still work.

Other than being a one-page portal to all the different language wikipedias 
(which the Main Page already does -- as do most of the other language main 
pages) I don't see any logic in using wikipedia.org for anything other than 
the English language wikipedia. 

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)