Erik Moeller wrote:
Making
www.wikipedia.org a multilingual portal has been
suggested by many
different people ever since the creation of new languages besides English.
I point you, for example, to this summary by Elian written in October
2002, where a large number of people favored a multilingual portal:
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2002-October/024522.html
It's been discussed, but there's never been a clear consensus that we
should actually make the chnage.
-Mark