[Wikipedia-l] www.wikipedia.org design

[tarquin]

Tom Parmenter wrote:

>|From: tarquin <tarquin at planetunreal.com>
>|Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 11:40:38 +0100
>|
>| > 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.
>|
>
>No no, it is only us addicts who do that!  Recent Changes is not for
>normal people.  Normal people come first via Google and then use the
>Main Page, if for no other reason, to access the search facility.
>
Surely the "Main Page" button on the English pedia will go to the 
English main page, which would be as it is now? -- and likewise the 
French "main page", etc etc
So googlers who arrive to articles would never see the multi-lingual 
central station.

or have we all been talking cross-purposes?