[Wikipedia-l] Re: A portal page for www.wikipedia.org

Sun Jan 9 18:02:43 UTC 2005

Hi,

Le Sunday 9 January 2005 16:45, Pete/Pcb21 a écrit :
> Anthere wrote:
> > I do not think there were be links broken now.
>
> It is very strange that no-one seems to have picked up on this.
> There are clearly many many more links to http://www.wikipedia.org
> (expecting to link to an English language encyclopedia) than ever
> before. The decision has been taken to break these links.
>
> Whether the cost of breaking those links is worth the gain of getting a
> international portal is debatable.
>
> More interesting to me is how this episode shows how what really matters
> is in getting something changed is what a tiny number of people think,
> not what the unwashed masses (who a: can't programme a computer and b:
> aren't on the board) think.

I think you have it wrong.
This multilingual portal is long overdue seeing the multilingual nature of our 
project. However a redirect to the English was kept for various reason (see 
Anthere's mail). As she said, usually people refer to the whole multilingual 
project as http://www.wikipedia.org, not to the English Wikipedia only.

> Pete/pcb21

Regards,
Yann
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