NSK wrote :
It is very very easy to avoid breaking old links and
refrain insulting
non-English users.
A link to
www.wikipedia.org will just land in the international portal page.
But a link to
www.wikipedia.org/anything will be processed to land in
en.wikipedia.org/anything.
I think it is a very nice idea that may content both those who are
afraid to break old English links to .org and those who are legitimately
offend an international project homepage link automatically to the
English version. I personally recommend making this page an alphabetic
list of link to local project, and only use automatic language detection
algorithm to highlight the relevant choices.
Aoineko