[Wikipedia-l] en.wikipedia.org vs www.wikipedia.org and the Wikipedia family

[tarquin]

Gareth & cunc. I thought we had agreed on some basics:

* that the Spanish Fork is a bad thing
* that we'd like them to come back
* that the other non-English wikipedias often feel ignored & sidelined.

Your last post seems to backtrack on the above.

Yes, compared to including them in software & policy debate, changing 
the URLs is a minor point. If we did *only* that, it would indeed be a sop.



Gareth Owen wrote:

>tarquin <tarquin at planetunreal.com> writes:
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>>But this is a significant move. 
>>Like mav said, it's *symbolic*. it's not the solution, but it's part of it. 
>>It shows that the other languages are siblings -- younger siblings, yes
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>I disagree.  
>Its only symbolic, and thats why its its neither significant, nor part of any
>real solution.  
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>It's an inconvenience to the vast majority of the users, and the only gain is
>that it is a meaningless sop to people who (IMHO) don't have a legitimate
>grievance in the first place.
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