On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 11:41, Anthere wrote:
Given all the good comments made here and Ed message of a couple of days ago, here's my position (I asked other french-sp, dunno what they think yet) on the www.wikipedia.org
amha (french translation for imho, nicely provided by our french linguist)
1)There's a need for a portal page stating the existence of all the wikis, a few infos about each, and a direct link to each. This page should be at wikipedia.org.
Unfortunately, the portal page is just about the most bankrupt concept possible in terms of usability, and online, usability is just about all you've got. The harm of adding one more click to users, both new and old, is measurable and huge.
www.wikipedia.org already has all the portalness it needs in its two paragraphs of intro. The article count should probably count all the languages, but that's about it.
Right now the different language versions of WP are separate wikis; that should not be the permanent case. And that is what should be focused on here.