[Wikipedia-l] Moving the English Wikipedia to en.wikipedia.org

Fri Oct 11 11:33:59 UTC 2002

Jimmy Wales <jwales at bomis.com> writes:

> We don't want people working in other languages to feel that English has
> unfairly co-opted the privileged 'www' namespace.

It has the most contributors (by far), the most readers (by far), 
is the most linked too (by far) and has the most articles (by far).  

If en.wikipedia.com co-opting the 'www' namespace is "unfair", 
its a definition of "unfair" with which I'm not familiar.
-- 
Gareth Owen
"Wikipedia does rock.  By the count on the "brilliant prose" page, there
 are 14 not-bad articles so far" -- Larry Sanger (12 Jan 2001)