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

[Paul Ebermann]

"The Cunctator" skribis:


> On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 11:00, Jimmy Wales wrote:
> > Gareth Owen wrote:
> > > koyaanisqatsi at nupedia.com writes:
> > > 
> > > > Aside from that, how would the move to en. be an inconvenience aside from
> > > > having to log in?  
> > > 
> > > Link rot
> > 
> > Can you expand on this?
> > 
> > I don't think anyone is proposing that www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson would
> > ever not work as it does now.  It would be a pure alias for en.wikipedia.com.
> 
> My understanding is that people are proposing that the www urls be made
> into redirects, not pure aliases, or even links to various language
> entries, or a redirect to the to-be-created portal page, or to the
> to-be-created foundation, at some point.

My understanding is:

(1) http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson
should be the same page as
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson.

Maybe it could be a 301 redirect (from www to en)
- where is the problem?

(2)
We should not use
    http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/*
for anything else in the future.

(3)
The portal page should be at
    http://www.wikipedia.org/,
anything that is about the foundation
could for example be in
    http://www.wikipedia.org/foundation/*,
everything about _all_ wikipedias (special
functions, etc.) maybe could be in
    http://www.wikipedia.org/all/*,
etc.

There is so much namespace free ...


Paul