[Wikipedia-l] A portal page for www.wikipedia.org (was Re: Why www.wikipedia.org => en.wikipedia.org ?)

[David Gerard]

Anthere (anthere9 at yahoo.com) [050107 17:10]:

> I was among those who objected more than 2 years ago.
> I believe most of the objections raised at that time
> do not make any more sense. A lot was written on the
> mailing list, and some discussion may be found here :
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/What_to_do_with_www.wikipedia.org.
> I do not think there were be links broken now. We
> switch the adress more than 2 years ago, the
> encyclopedia is so much bigger now, and we had truely
> become international (which was not true 3 years ago
> at all).
> It is high time we finally get a portal page. 


I agree. The links that might be broken would be links to en: articles, so
those should still be set to redirect; but the front page
(http://www.wikipedia.org/ or http://wikipedia.org/) should be
international.

Perhaps a list of languages, with the search box for that language next to
it - to make it as useful as possible.  Perhaps the Article of the Day for
the biggest ones.

But that's just details. Th front page should be international.


- d.