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

Sun Jan 9 09:57:08 UTC 2005

On Jan 9, 2005, at 2:46 AM, Jens Ropers wrote:
> I still think flags/images are a generally preferable solution. Yes, 
> there would be fights over, say, Chinese and the flag of the PR of 
> China. Or over English and using a US flag. But I think the entire 
> Wikipedia concept shows that risking it, doing it anyway and letting 
> the wiki process do its magic can solve these issues -- and it's 
> better than having a dull text-only page forever.

The great thing about open source is learning from others.

Check the PHP archives to see the flambe-fest about flags, language 
jumping, etc... they've been sorting this out for ages.

-Bop