[Wikipedia-l] www.wikipedia.org design

[tarquin]

The Cunctator wrote:

>On 10/24/02 8:49 PM, "Karen AKA Kajikit" <kaji at labyrinth.net.au> wrote:
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>>Some people are complaining that it seems to be a balkanised project -
>>until all the databases are unified, then it IS balkinised. That's a
>>fact of life. Once all the pedias are running on one server then I'd
>>suggest a simple dropdown box that says 'What language would you like to
>>work in today?' and then takes you to the appropriate place.
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>Just because it's balkanized technologically doesn't make it a good idea for
>it to be balkanized explicitly as well.
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It is already balkanized explicitly, simply because the www.W.org url 
takes people to an english-only page.

 > 1. A page like this is useful exactly once for any user. After that 
it becomes useless.

The Main Page is just the same -- I haven't bookmarked it & I only ever 
visit it if I see it has been edited. I expect most regular visitors are 
like me & bookmark Recent Changes.