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most people did not think that having
www.wikipedia.org as a multi-language portal would be
stupid.  When I promote Wikipedia, I want to promote
the project *as a whole*, but I'm certainly not going
to promote www.wikipedia.org which goes to a webpage
in English if I'm promoting the in an Esperanto
magazine and I doubt people who are promoting the
German, Polish, Dutch, Spanish, etc would want to
point to that page either.

I know a lot of people who thought the Esperanto
Wikipedia was the only language that existed in the
project and I'd imagine that we're not alone in this. 
I started promoting www.vikipedio.org because people
got confused when we promoted eo.wikipedia.org.

I also know a lot of people who don't speak English
who simply click off a page if they see that it's not
in a language they understand, thus they'd never get
past the English front page of Wikipedia.  Also, a
dropdown box like we use at www.tejo.org might work as
well, instead of the portal as planned, but I think
the multilingual portal at www.wikipedia.org is
necessary.

Also, what's wrong if people have linked to
www.wikipedia.org from their webpages.  It will still
go to Wikipedia, they don't need to change their
links!  The Wikipedia is a multilingual project, not
just an English project.  Plus, this is one of the
reasons why the Spanish project won't merge back with
us.

I'm crossposting this on Intlwiki-L and Wikipedia-L so
all can participate.  I recommend that we continue
this discussion on Wikipedia-L.

Thanks,
Chuck

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