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

Paul Ebermann Paul-Ebermann at gmx.de
Sat Oct 12 22:41:55 UTC 2002


"Toby Bartels" skribis:


> Maveric149 wrote in last part:
> 
> >Paul Ebermann wrote;
> 
> >>anything that is about the foundation
> >>could for example be in
> >>    http://www.wikipedia.org/foundation/*,
> 
> >Why not simply www.wikipedia.org/ ? The word
> >"foundation" is still in English which isn't necessary
> >and might seem odd as the URL for the French
> >translation of the by-laws.
> 
> Could this cause problems if a currently existing [[en:]] page
> has the same name as a proposed foundation text page?
> No big deal; conflicts are unlikely and can in any case be avoided by
> changing the foundation text page to something different but just as good.

This is no problem since the en-pages all use /wiki/
(or /wiki.cgi?...) and we should not use
    www.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
for anything else, IMHO).

Paul




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