I would also like to know why this was changed. It's the first I've heard of it! TSBDY Mark Pellegrini wrote:

I agree, it should show the main page again. This is bad. They could move the links to the other Wikipedias on top of the English page instead of at the bottom of all those templates. And Wikipedia is really slow already, having another thing to click through won't help. But I guess they want us to use http://en.wikipedia.org. :( Change it back. --Cookiecaper. -----Original Message----- From: wikien-l-bounces(a)Wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Mark Pellegrini Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 12:43 AM To: wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org Subject: [WikiEN-l] www.wikipedia.org no longer redirects to the en main page I'd like to start out by noting that www.wikipedia.org no longer redirects to the english wikipedia's main page. Instead, it's been turned into a replica of the language template. Deeper links ( www.wikipedia.org/wiki/name_of_article ) still work, but the main page does not. First of all, this is a MAJOR, MAJOR change and was totally unannounced. Nor did anyone in the community get a chance to object before it was put into place. (Because I suspect there would have been a major outcry) Second of all, I cannot fathom why the this was changed. By now, there's a huge inertia behind the fact that www.wikipeda.org links to the english main page. This is going to break *MANY* links, bookmarks, etc. We (the english Wikipedia) are goings to lose significant number of potential contributors because of this. Why the hell was this changed? Why was no one told before hand, or even afterward? --Mark _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

On Saturday 08 January 2005 08:42, Mark Pellegrini wrote: That was an good major change, and obviously good changes don't need to be objected, especially considering that the leader of the project agreed with it. Seriously, in this case, it was thouroughly discussed in the mailing list, so actually anybody could object. -- NSK The Wikinerds Community Federation of Science Wikis Owner of the Wikinerds Portal http://portal.wikinerds.org Owner of the NerdyPC IT Wiki http://www.nerdypc.org

about bloody time too. Congrats to tim. [[Be bold]] my preeties, be bold On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 01:42:31 -0500, Mark Pellegrini <mapellegrini(a)comcast.net> wrote: -- hit me: robin.shannon.id.au jab me: saudade(a)jabber.zim.net.au This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Recombo Plus License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/sampling+/1.0/