[Wikipedia-l] Moving the English Wikipedia to en.wikipedia.org

[Brion VIBBER]

The Cunctator wrote:
> On 10/10/02 3:26 AM, "Brion VIBBER" <brion at pobox.com> wrote:
>>We haven't decided yet exactly what to make the new www.wikipedia.org
>>project front page look like, but it seems pretty well decided that we
>>do want to move the English wiki to en.wikipedia.org and set up some
>>sort of multilingual and/or browser-language-setting-sensitive intro page.
>>
>>(See: http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_to_do_with_www.wikipedia.org )
>>
>>If there's no objection, I'm going to switch the URL redirecting around
>>tomorrow, so that www.wikipedia.org/* points to en.wikipedia.org/*
>>rather than the other way 'round. A new intro page can later be set up
>>at convenience.
> 
> I object strenuously. This is not a slam-dunk good idea at all. Please hold
> off at least a good while before doing this.

I notice Cunc didn't maintain the cross-most to intlwiki-L.

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-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)