On 10/10/02 6:41 PM, "Daniel Mayer" maveric149@yahoo.com wrote: <snip>
Granted the English Wikipedia is the oldest and largest but it shouldn't be vaulted as /The Main/ Wikipedia with the other languages relegated to second class status in The Main WIkipedia's shadow.
By the same token, the English-lang Wikipedia is the oldest and largest (by far), and it shouldn't be shoved around simply for the sake of political correctness.
The Main Wikipedia is the /whole/ project which includes all languages not just one, no?
I agree that the Wikipedia project includes all languages. Whether changing www.wikipedia.org to a portal page is a good idea is a different question.
I furthermore don't see a move as Balkanization when we will soon all be on the same software, all use the same Metapedia and all have interlanguage links going back and forth from all the different languages. I now will often take info from articles in other languages to update their English counterparts and I also see the reverse being done by non-English Wikipedias.
All those things are exactly what I agree with.
www.wikipedia.org should be home for the Foundation and a portal to each of the different language sub-projects as I stated in my previous post. The English Wikipedia would be just one click away from the portal and so would all the other wikipedias. This is only fair.
Fairness is a very squishy issue. Is it only fair that states with populations of 600,000 get the same number of Senators as states with populations of 35,000,000?
It would be a poor idea for www.wikipedia.org become the foundation url.
It should have its own url, much as gnu.org and fsf.org are separately named.