[Wikipedia-l] Re: Re: Moving the wikis (en.wikipedia.org vs

[Daniel Mayer]

>Daniel Mayer wrote:
>> 
>> I kinda like the idea of doing the reverse now; 
>> have all the language wikis at www.wikipedia.org 
>> via the syntax www.wikipedia.org/xx/ where xx is 
>> the language code. Brion is floating a similar 
>> idea over at the meta
>>
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughts_on_language_integration
>> However his proposal leaves-out the www which I
>> think is a mistake since www.foobar.org is 
>> universally recognized as an Internet address 
>> whereas forbar.org is not.
>
>(anything).com is universally recognized as an 
> internet address. Is .org really so unknown? 
> Never been to slashdot.org?

Yes I visit /. daily. Our motto here isn't "News for
Nerds, Stuff that Matters", I think our audience is
not as technically inclined as the /. crowd is on
average. www.string.org also is nicely balanced and
elegant looking whereas string.org is one-sided and
looks like a file name (to me at least). 

www.string.org        vs        string.org 

>> I like this idea because every language will
>> then have the promotional benefit of being at 
>> the www.wikipedia.org address and no language 
>> is left at the rather odd looking, IMO, 
>> xx.wikipedia.org. This also improves the url 
>> for the English Wikipedia; instead of being at 
>> the redundant www.wikipedia.org/wiki/ it will 
>> be at the cleaner www.wikipedia.org/en/ 
>
>Still got the redundant www. Www provides nothing 
>that http:// doesn't, and in today's webcentric 
>Internet little that .com, .org, .de, .foobar 
>doesn't.

But http:// is terrifying to many of the technically
uninclined -- therefore having the www buffer is nice.
If we were a techy website I would have to agree that
the www is not needed and is wasted keystrokes, but we
are not a techy website (or at least we shouldn't be).


>But, if everyone loves the wuh wuh wuh, I can't 
>complain too much. Both ways can be allowed 
>whichever one is canonical.
>
>-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

This isn't that important so I will yield to the
popular will as well without much protest.

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)

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