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

Sun Jan 9 04:38:06 UTC 2005

d/thing it/

On 9 Jan 2005, at 05:27, Jens Ropers wrote:

> Someone has now removed all the flags (without explanatory comment).
> Anthere has left a message in talk, making the point that flags  
> represent countries, not languages.
> I've replied on talk  
> (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Www.wikipedia.org_portal#Flags):
>
> Quite true, however for most (if not all) languages, there is a flag  
> that is commonly understood to symbolize the language as well  
> (depending on context). No other symbols exist that so clearly and  
> graphically identify the respective languages. And I
think having the instant visual indentification that you can get with  
images is worthwhile. That said, someone has removed the flags now  
(without explanatory comment) and I'm taking my time about reverting,  
because I believe community consensus will decide this one.
>
> So what do people think? Is it just me to find the version with flags  
> (  
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php? 
> title=Www.wikipedia.org_portal&oldid=88465 should give you a vague  
> idea) more appealing?
>
> -- ropers [[en:User:Ropers]]
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